Victorian Current Acts

LABOUR HIRE LICENSING ACT 2018 - SECT 76

    (1)     A search warrant issued under section 75(3) may authorise the inspector named in the warrant together with a police officer or any other person or persons named or otherwise identified in the warrant and with any necessary equipment, to do any of the following—

        (a)     to enter the premises specified in the warrant, by force if necessary;

        (b)     if the inspector believes on reasonable grounds that a thing, or thing of a particular kind, named or described in the warrant is connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations—

              (i)     to search for the thing; and

              (ii)     to seize the thing; and

              (iii)     to secure the thing against interference; and

              (iv)     to examine and inspect the thing; and

              (v)     to make copies of, or take extracts from, the thing.

    (2)     A search warrant issued under section 75(3) must state—

        (a)     the purpose for which the search is required; and

        (b)     any condition to which the warrant is subject; and

        (c)     whether entry is authorised to be made at any time of the day or night or during specified hours of the day or night; and

        (d)     a day, not later than 28 days after the issue of the warrant, on which the warrant ceases to have effect.

    (3)     Except as provided by this Act, the rules to be observed with respect to search warrants under the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 extend and apply to warrants issued under section 75(3).