Financial Intermediaries Act 1996

An inspector may apply to a magistrate for a warrant for a place.

The application must be sworn and state the grounds on which the warrant is sought.

The magistrate may refuse to consider the application until the inspector gives the magistrate all the information the magistrate requires about the application in the way the magistrate requires.

The magistrate may issue a warrant only if the magistrate is satisfied there are reasonable grounds for suspecting—

there is a particular thing or activity (the evidence) that may provide evidence of an offence against this Act; and

the evidence is, or may be within the next 7 days, at the place.

The warrant must state—

that a stated inspector may, with necessary and reasonable help and force, enter the place and exercise the inspector’s powers under this subdivision; and

the offence for which the warrant is sought; and

the evidence that may be seized under the warrant; and

the hours of the day or night when the place may be entered; and

the date, within 7 days after the warrant’s issue, when the warrant ends.