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PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 2016 - SECT 248

248 .         Further provisions relating to application for warrant

        (1)         If, on an application made by remote communication under section 247, a judicial officer issues a warrant, the judicial officer must, if practicable, send a copy of the original warrant to the applicant by remote communication, but otherwise —

            (a)         the judicial officer must send the applicant by remote communication any information that must be set out in the warrant; and

            (b)         the applicant must complete a form of a warrant with that information and give the judicial officer a copy of the form as soon as is practicable after doing so; and

            (c)         the judicial officer must attach the copy of the form to the original warrant and any affidavit received from the applicant and make them available for collection by the applicant.

        (2)         The copy of the original warrant sent, or the form of the warrant completed, as the case may be, under subsection (1) has the same force and effect as the original warrant.

        (3)         If an applicant contravenes section 247(7)(b) or subsection (1)(b), any evidence obtained under the warrant is not admissible in proceedings in a court.



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