Power under surveillance warrants
128 Power under surveillance warrants
A commission officer to whom a surveillance warrant is directed may, subject to the warrant, lawfully exercise any of the following powers under the warrant (surveillance powers)—
power to enter a stated place or class of place, covertly or through subterfuge, to install a surveillance device;
power to install and use a surveillance device to intercept and record private conversations;
power to remove a thing to another place to install a surveillance device in the thing;
power to use an assistant to translate or interpret conversations intercepted under the warrant;
power to take electricity for using a surveillance device;
power to use reasonable force—
to enter a place to install a surveillance device; or
to install a surveillance device;
power to use 1 or more surveillance devices in the same place;
power to pass through, over, under or along a place to get to the place where the surveillance device is to be used.
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