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MAGISTRATES' COURT ACT 1989 - SECT 60

Effect of defect or error in certain warrants

S. 60(1) amended by Nos 33/1994 s. 9(3), 48/2006 s. 42(Sch. item 22.4), 87/2009 s. 60(3), 47/2014 s. 273.

    (1)     A warrant to imprison, a warrant to detain in a youth justice centre, a remand warrant, a warrant to seize property or an enforcement warrant [7] is not void only because of a defect or error in it if there is a valid order supporting it.

S. 60(2) amended by Nos 33/1994 s. 9(4), 87/2009 s. 60(3), 47/2014 s. 273.

    (2)     A person acting under a warrant to seize property or an enforcement warrant [8] is not to be taken to be a trespasser from the beginning only because of a defect or error in it.

Subdivision 2—Warrant to arrest



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