Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00612:section:22:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00612
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 22 (pt 2/3)
Character Range: 101908–104401

issue of the warrant and particulars of any other grounds relied on by him or her to justify the issue of the warrant.
 (5) A warrant issued under this section shall:
 (a) include a statement of the purpose for which the warrant is issued, which shall include a reference to the special ACC operation/investigation and with which the things of the relevant kind are connected;
 (b) state whether entry is authorized to be made at any time of the day or night or during specified hours of the day or night;
 (c) include a description of the kind of things authorized to be seized; and
 (d) specify a date, not being later than one month after the date of issue of the warrant, upon which the warrant ceases to have effect.
 (6) A warrant issued under this section may be executed, in accordance with its terms, at any time during the period commencing on the relevant day and ending on the date specified in the warrant as the date upon which the warrant ceases to have effect.
 (6A) A person executing a warrant issued under this section may only use such reasonable force as is necessary for the execution.
 (7) Where, in the course of searching, in accordance with the terms of a warrant issued under this section, for things of the relevant kind, the person executing the warrant finds a thing that he or she believes on reasonable grounds to be evidence that would be admissible in the prosecution of a person for an offence against a law of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory, and he or she believes on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to seize the thing in order to prevent its concealment, loss, mutilation or destruction, or its use in committing such an offence, the person may seize the thing and, if he or she does so, the thing shall be deemed, for the purposes of this Act, to have been seized pursuant to the warrant.
 (10) Nothing in this section affects a right of a person to apply for, or the power of a person to issue, a warrant, being a right or power existing otherwise than by virtue of this section.
 (11) In this section:
thing includes a document.
 (13) Without limiting the generality of paragraph (1)(a), a reference in this section to a thing connected with a special ACC operation/investigation, includes a reference to a thing that may be used in evidence in proceedings for the taking, by or on behalf of the Crown in right of the Commonwealth, of a State or of a Territory, of civil remedies in respect of a matter connected with, or arising