Environment Protection Act 1997
97Entry of premises—search warrants
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97 Entry of premises—search warrants (1) If an authorised officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there may be on any premises a thing of a particular kind connected with a particular offence against this Act, the authorised officer may enter premises under a search warrant under section 104. (2) An authorised officer may enter premises under subsection (1) with the assistance and by the force that is necessary and reasonable. (3) A police officer may, if called on by an authorised officer to do so, assist the authorised officer in the execution of a search warrant.