(1) The grounds of an
application for a warrant must be verified by affidavit.
(2) If an application
for the issue of a warrant is made by telephone, the following provisions
apply:
(a) the
applicant must inform the magistrate of the applicant's name and identify
themself as an authorised officer and the magistrate, on receiving that
information, is entitled to assume, without further inquiry, that the
applicant is an authorised officer;
(b) the
applicant must inform the magistrate of the grounds on which the issue of the
warrant is sought and must undertake to make an affidavit verifying the facts
relied on by the magistrate for the issue of the warrant;
(c) the
applicant must, as soon as practicable after the issue of the warrant, forward
to the magistrate an affidavit verifying the facts referred to in
paragraph (b).