194When search warrants can be issued

194 When search warrants can be issued (1) An issuing officer may issue a warrant to search premises if the officer is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is, or there will be within the next 72 hours, any evidential material at the premises. (2) An issuing officer may issue a warrant authorising an ordinary search or a frisk search of a person, including a person under 14 years old, if the officer is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that the person possesses, or will within the next 72 hours possess, any evidential material. (3) An issuing officer who receives an application to issue a warrant under which a person under 14 years old may be searched, or may be present at premises that may be searched— (a) must take into account the best interests of the person under 14 years old when deciding whether to issue the warrant; and (b) if the officer decides to issue the warrant—may direct the person applying for the warrant to give notice before the warrant is executed to— (i) if the person under 14 years old is known to be an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child or young person—the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children and young people commissioner; or (ii) in any other case—the public advocate.

(4) If the person applying for the warrant suspects that, in executing the warrant, it will be necessary to use firearms, the person shall state that suspicion, and the grounds for that suspicion, in the information. (5) If the person applying for the warrant knows or suspects that, in executing the warrant, a person under 14 years old may be searched or may be present at premises that may be searched, the person must state that knowledge or suspicion, and the grounds for the knowledge or suspicion, in the information. (6) If the person applying for the warrant is a police officer and has, at any time previously, applied for a warrant relating to the same person or premises, the person shall state in the information particulars of those applications and their outcome. (7) A warrant shall include statements of the following matters: (a) the offence to which the warrant relates; (b) a description of the warrant premises, or the name or description of the person to whom it relates; (c) the kinds of evidential material that are to be searched for under the warrant; (d) the name of the police officer who is to be responsible for executing the warrant (unless he or she inserts in the warrant the name of another police officer); (e) the period, not exceeding 7 days, that the warrant remains in force; (f) subject to subsection (11), the times when the search is authorised.

(8) For a warrant in relation to premises, the warrant shall state— (a) that the warrant authorises the seizure of a thing (other than evidential material of the kind referred to in subsection (7) (c)) found at the premises in the course of the search that the (ii) a thing relevant to another offence that is a serious offence; or reasonable grounds that seizure of the thing is necessary to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction or its use in (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 an assisting officer suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has any evidential material or seizable items in his or her possession.