New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CRIMINAL ASSETS RECOVERY ACT 1990 - SECT 40

40 Responsibility for seized property

(1) If property or evidence is seized when a search warrant issued under this Division is executed, reasonable measures for its preservation while in custody are to be taken--

(a) by the Commission, if the warrant was issued on the application of a member of the Commission, or

(b) by the Commissioner of Police, if the warrant was issued on the application of a member of the Police Force.

(2) A person authorised by the Commission for the purpose may--

(a) examine any property or evidence seized when a search warrant issued under this Division is executed, including a warrant issued on the application of a member of the Police Force, and

(b) inspect and test any such property, and

(c) in the case of evidence that is a document--make copies of, and take extracts from, the document.