Road Traffic (Administration) Act 2008

A police officer may apply for a warrant.

An application for a warrant must be made to a JP in accordance with section 64.

An application for a warrant must —

state the applicant’s full name, rank and number assigned to the applicant for official purposes; and

describe the premises that it is desired to search; and

state the MDLR compliance purposes or RTA Part 6A compliance purposes in respect of which it is desired to search the premises; and

in the case where it is desired to investigate a breach or suspected breach of a provision mentioned in paragraph (a) of the definition of MDLR compliance purposes in section 28 or in paragraph (a) of the definition of RTA Part 6A compliance purposes in section 28, state —

the provision; and

that the applicant reasonably believes there has been such a breach; and

the grounds on which the applicant holds that belief;

state whether the premises are, or any part of premises is, used predominantly for residential purposes; and

state the grounds on which the applicant believes that the premises are unattended or will be unattended at the time of the proposed entry; and

state, to the best of the applicant’s knowledge, whether an application for a warrant for the same premises has been made to any other JP within the previous 72 hours and if so whether a warrant was issued or not; and

include any other information that is prescribed.