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s 27P

Powers expressly conferred by covert search warrant

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Part 3ACovert search warrants
Division 4Execution of covert search warrants and provisions applying after warrants executed
Subdivision 2Powers exercisable under covert search warrants

27P Powers expressly conferred by covert search warrant

In addition to the powers mentioned in section 27N, if it expressly so authorises, a covert search warrant authorises the police officer named in the warrant:

(a)

to enter an adjoining place specified in the warrant, using the force that is reasonably necessary, for the purposes of entering the subject place; and

(b)

to seize and detain a thing of a kind described in the warrant and any relevant thing found in the course of executing the warrant;

and

(c)

to place a thing of a kind described in the warrant on the subject place in substitution for a thing seized under paragraph (b);

and

(d)

to copy, photograph or otherwise record a thing of a kind described in the warrant and any relevant thing found in the course of executing the warrant; and

(e)

to operate any electronic equipment of a kind described in the warrant and any relevant electronic equipment found in the course of executing the warrant; and

(f)

to print, copy or otherwise record from the equipment information of a kind described in the warrant to be printed, copied or recorded and any relevant information found in the course of executing the warrant; and

(g)

to test a thing of that kind and any relevant thing found in the course of executing the warrant.

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