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POLICE AND OTHER LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2005 No. 17 - SECT 8

8 Amendment of s 155 (Powers under covert search warrant)

(1) Section 155(e), after 'commission of'--

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'a designated offence or'.

(2) Section 155(f), after 'commission of'--

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'a designated offence or'.

(3) Section 155--

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'(2) Also, a police officer has the following powers under a covert search warrant if authorised under the warrant--

(a) power to take a thing, or part of a thing, seized under the warrant, as a sample, to a place with appropriate facilities for testing the thing for evidence of the commission of the designated offence or organised crime or of terrorism to which the warrant relates;
(b) power to do any of the following in relation to a vehicle a police officer enters under the warrant if the police officer reasonably suspects the vehicle has evidence of the commission of the designated offence or organised crime or of terrorism to which the warrant relates in or on it--
(i) seize the vehicle;
(ii) take the vehicle to a place with appropriate facilities for searching the vehicle;
(iii) remove walls, ceiling linings, panels or fittings of the vehicle for the purpose of searching the vehicle;
(iv) search the vehicle for evidence of the designated offence or organised crime or of terrorism to which the warrant relates.'.


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