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COMMUNITY GAMING ACT 2018 - SECT 26
Search warrants
26 Search warrants
(1) An authorised officer may apply to an issuing officer for a search warrant
if the applicant has reasonable grounds for believing that-- (a) a provision
of this Act or the regulations has been or is being contravened on premises,
or
(b) there are on the premises documents relevant to an inquiry under this
Part and a person having custody or control of the documents has failed to
comply with a requirement under this Act to produce those documents or to
provide copies of them or extracts from them.
(2) An issuing officer to whom
an application for a search warrant is made under this section may, if
satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search
warrant authorising an authorised officer named in the warrant and any other
person named in the warrant-- (a) to enter the premises concerned, and
(b) to
search the premises for evidence of a contravention of this Act or the
regulations.
(2A) A police officer may accompany an authorised officer who
enters premises and searches for evidence under a search warrant as if the
police officer were named in the warrant.
(3) Division 4 of Part 5 of the
Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 applies to a search
warrant issued under this section.
(4) In this section--
"issuing officer" means an authorised officer within the meaning of the Law
Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .
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