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Confiscation of Criminal Assets Act 2003
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202 Authorisation given by search warrants
(1) A search warrant authorises an executing police officer, or a person
assisting—
(a) to enter the premises and, if the premises are a vehicle, to enter
the vehicle, wherever it is; and
(b) to search the premises for the kind of target material stated in
the warrant, and to seize things of that kind found at the
premises; and
(c) to seize any other thing found at the premises in the course of
the search that the executing police officer or a person assisting
believes on reasonable grounds to be target material in relation
to which the warrant relates (including evidence of a relevant
offence) or evidence of a summary offence if the police officer
believes on reasonable grounds that seizure of the thing is
necessary to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction or its
use in committing an offence; and
(d) if the warrant allows—to conduct an ordinary search or frisk
search of a person at or near the premises if the executing police
officer or a person assisting suspects on reasonable grounds that
the person has target material in the person’s possession.
(2) A search warrant authorises an executing police officer to make
things seized under the warrant available to another police officer,
any public servant or anyone who holds a position under a territory
law, or a law of the Commonwealth, a State or another Territory, if it
is necessary to do so for investigating or prosecuting an offence to
which the things relate.