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Guide, Hearing and Assistance Dogs Act 2009
sec.84DProcedure for entry under warrant
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### sec.84D Procedure for entry under warrant
This section applies if an authorised officer is intending to enter a place under a warrant issued under this subdivision.
Before entering the place, the authorised officer must do or make a reasonable attempt to do the following things—
identify himself or herself to a person who is an occupier of the place and is present by producing the officer’s identity card or another document evidencing the officer’s appointment;
give the person a copy of the warrant;
tell the person the officer is permitted by the warrant to enter the place;
give the person an opportunity to allow the officer immediate entry to the place without using force.
However, the authorised officer need not comply with subsection (2) if the officer believes on reasonable grounds that entry to the place without compliance is required to ensure the execution of the warrant is not frustrated.
s 84D ins 2015 No. 21 s 39
(sec.84D-ssec.1) This section applies if an authorised officer is intending to enter a place under a warrant issued under this subdivision.
(sec.84D-ssec.2) Before entering the place, the authorised officer must do or make a reasonable attempt to do the following things— identify himself or herself to a person who is an occupier of the place and is present by producing the officer’s identity card or another document evidencing the officer’s appointment; give the person a copy of the warrant; tell the person the officer is permitted by the warrant to enter the place; give the person an opportunity to allow the officer immediate entry to the place without using force.
(sec.84D-ssec.3) However, the authorised officer need not comply with subsection (2) if the officer believes on reasonable grounds that entry to the place without compliance is required to ensure the execution of the warrant is not frustrated.
- (a) identify himself or herself to a person who is an occupier of the place and is present by producing the officer’s identity card or another document evidencing the officer’s appointment;
- (b) give the person a copy of the warrant;
- (c) tell the person the officer is permitted by the warrant to enter the place;
- (d) give the person an opportunity to allow the officer immediate entry to the place without using force.