Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If an authorised
officer is satisfied that it is necessary to do so to enforce a public health
order, the authorised officer may apply to a magistrate for a warrant for the
apprehension of the person to whom the order applies.
(2) The application
—
(a) must
be made in accordance with sections 247 and 248, and those sections apply with
all necessary changes; and
(b) must
be determined in private.
(3) If the magistrate
is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for the application to have
been made under subsection (1), the magistrate must issue a warrant for the
apprehension of the person to whom the public health order applies.
(4) The magistrate
must cause a record to be made (on the warrant or otherwise) of the matters of
fact on which the magistrate has relied to justify the issue of the warrant.
(5) The warrant
authorises the person specified in the warrant (and any police officer
accompanying that person under section 126(1)(a)) —
(a) to
enter, at any time, any place where the person to whom the public health order
applies is reasonably believed to be, using any force that is reasonably
necessary to do so; and
(b) to
search the place for the purpose of finding the person; and
(c) to
apprehend the person and take the person to a place to be dealt with in
accordance with the public health order.