Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591:section:85a
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00591
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 85A
Character Range: 225213–226763

85A  The things that are authorised by a search warrant
 (1) A warrant authorises the executing officer or a person helping:
 (a) to enter the warrant premises and, if the premises are a conveyance, to enter the conveyance, wherever it is; and
 (b) to search for and record fingerprints found at the premises and to take samples of things found at the premises for forensic purposes; and
 (c) to search the premises for the kinds of evidential material specified in the warrant, and to seize things of that kind found at the premises; and
 (d) to seize other things found at the premises in the course of the search that the executing officer or a person helping believes on reasonable grounds to be:
 (i) evidential material in relation to an offence to which the warrant relates; or
 (ii) evidential material in relation to another offence against this Act or the regulations that is an indictable offence;
  if the executing officer or a person helping 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 against this Act or the regulations.
 (2) If the warrant states that it may be executed only during particular hours, the warrant must not be executed outside those hours.
 (3) If things are seized under a warrant, the warrant authorises the executing officer to make the things available to officers of other agencies if it is necessary to do so for the purpose of investigating or prosecuting an offence to which the things relate.