Victorian Numbered Acts Victorian Numbered Acts(1) If a protective intervener is satisfied on reasonable grounds that a child is in need of protection and that it is inappropriate to take the procedure set out in section 240(1)(a), he or she may—
(a) without a warrant, take the child into safe custody or cause another protective intervener to take the child into safe custody; or
(b) apply to a magistrate for the issue of a search warrant for the purpose of having the child taken into safe custody.
(2) A search warrant issued under sub-section (1)—
(a) may only be directed to a named member of the police force or generally all members of the police force; and
(b) may be endorsed by the person issuing it with a direction that the child be released on an interim accommodation order of the type referred to in section 263(1)(a) or 263(1)(b) as specified in the endorsement.