sec.149Issue of entry and removal warrant

### sec.149 Issue of entry and removal warrant The tribunal may issue a warrant only if the tribunal is satisfied there are reasonable grounds for suspecting there is an immediate risk of harm, because of neglect (including self neglect), exploitation or abuse, to an adult with impaired capacity for a matter. The warrant must state— that the public guardian may, with necessary and reasonable help and force, enter the place, and any other place necessary for entry, and remove the adult; and that the public guardian may ask a police officer to help in the exercise of the public guardian’s powers under the warrant; and the hours of the day or night when the place may be entered; and the date, within 14 days after the warrant’s issue, the warrant ends. s 149 amd 2014 No. 26 s 240 (sec.149-ssec.1) The tribunal may issue a warrant only if the tribunal is satisfied there are reasonable grounds for suspecting there is an immediate risk of harm, because of neglect (including self neglect), exploitation or abuse, to an adult with impaired capacity for a matter. (sec.149-ssec.2) The warrant must state— that the public guardian may, with necessary and reasonable help and force, enter the place, and any other place necessary for entry, and remove the adult; and that the public guardian may ask a police officer to help in the exercise of the public guardian’s powers under the warrant; and the hours of the day or night when the place may be entered; and the date, within 14 days after the warrant’s issue, the warrant ends. - (a) that the public guardian may, with necessary and reasonable help and force, enter the place, and any other place necessary for entry, and remove the adult; and - (b) that the public guardian may ask a police officer to help in the exercise of the public guardian’s powers under the warrant; and - (c) the hours of the day or night when the place may be entered; and - (d) the date, within 14 days after the warrant’s issue, the warrant ends.