Report on covert search
220 Report on covert search
A police officer to whom a covert search warrant is issued, or who is primarily responsible for executing a covert search warrant, must make a report as required under this section.
The report must be made to the Supreme Court judge who issued the warrant or to the public interest monitor as stated in the warrant.
The report must be made within 7 days after the warrant is executed.
If a report is given to the public interest monitor, the monitor may refer the report to a Supreme Court judge for the purpose of an order being made under subsection (6).
If—
the report is made to a Supreme Court judge; or
the public interest monitor refers the report to a Supreme Court judge;
the police officer must, if practicable, also take before the judge anything seized under the warrant and any photograph taken during the search.
On receiving a report, the judge may order that any thing seized under the warrant and any photograph taken during the search—
be held by a police officer until any proceeding in which the thing may be evidence ends; or
be dealt with in the way the judge orders.
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