Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155:section:198:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00155
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 198 (pt 2/2)
Character Range: 1247479–1248812

to be forfeited goods;
  if the executing officer or person assisting believes on reasonable grounds that seizure of the things is necessary to prevent their concealment, loss or destruction or their use in committing an offence; and
 (b) whether the warrant authorises an ordinary search or a frisk search of a person who is at or near the premises when the warrant is executed, if the executing officer or a person assisting suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has any evidential material or seizable items in his or her possession.
 (5) Paragraph (3)(e) and subsection (3A) do not prevent the issue of successive warrants in relation to the same premises.
 (6) If the application for the warrant is made under section 203M, this section (other than subsection (3A)) applies as if:
 (a) subsection (1) referred to 48 hours rather than 72 hours; and
 (b) paragraph (3)(e) required the judicial officer to state in the warrant the period for which the warrant is to remain in force, which must not be more than 48 hours.
 (7) A judicial officer of a particular State or Territory may issue a warrant in respect of the search of premises in another State or Territory.
 (8) This section is not to be taken to limit any power of search granted to an officer of Customs under any other provision of a law of the Commonwealth.