Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if a police officer reasonably suspects a cash dealer holds documents that may be—

evidence of the commission of an offence by someone else; or

confiscation related evidence in relation to a confiscation related activity involving someone else; or

SDOCO related evidence.

The police officer may, instead of applying for a search warrant, apply to a justice or a magistrate for the issue of a notice (production notice) requiring the cash dealer to produce documents stated in the production notice to a police officer.

The application must—

be sworn and state the grounds on which the production notice is sought; and

include information required under the responsibilities code about any production notices issued within the previous year in relation to—

for an application relating to SDOCO related evidence—the person convicted of the qualifying offence to which the application relates; or

for another application—the person suspected of being involved in the commission of the offence or suspected offence or confiscation related activity to which the application relates.

Subsection (3)(b) applies only to—

information kept in a register that the police officer may inspect; and

information the police officer otherwise actually knows.

The justice or magistrate (the issuer) may refuse to consider the application until the police officer gives the issuer all the information the issuer requires about the application in the way the issuer requires.