Search warrants
38 Search warrants
An authorised officer may apply to a magistrate for a search warrant if the authorised officer has reasonable grounds to believe that a provision of this Act or the regulations has been, is being, or is about to be, contravened on premises.
A magistrate to whom an application is made under this section may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising the authorised officer named in the warrant, when accompanied by a police officer, and such other person (if any) as is named in the warrant—
to enter the premises concerned (using such force as is necessary for the purposes); and
to search the premises, and to break open and search anything in the premises, for evidence of a contravention of this Act or the regulations.
This section does not limit the operation of section 37(1).
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