Seizure of things pursuant to search warrant
49 Seizure of things pursuant to search warrant
A person executing a search warrant issued under this Division—
may seize and detain a thing (or thing of a kind) mentioned in the warrant, and
may, in addition, seize and detain any other thing that the person finds in the course of executing the warrant and that the person has reasonable grounds to believe is connected with any offence.
Without limiting subsection (1), the power to seize and detain a thing includes—
a power to remove the thing from the premises where it is found, and
a power to guard the thing in or on those premises, and
if it is a covert search warrant that authorises the placing of a kind of thing in substitution for a seized thing—a power to place a thing of that kind on the subject premises in substitution for a thing seized.
Note.
For the disposal of things seized pursuant to a search warrant, see Division 2 of Part 17.
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