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Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Act 2011
141AWarrant to arrest potential witness who has not yet been summoned
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141A Warrant to arrest potential witness who has not yet been summoned
(b) as a result of the investigation, the IBAC suspects on reasonable grounds that conduct of the person constitutes corrupt conduct; and
(c) a witness summons has not been issued under section 120(1) in respect of the person; and
(d) the IBAC believes on reasonable grounds that—
(i) the person is about to leave, is making preparations to leave, or is likely to leave, the State; and
(ii) if a witness summons were issued under section 120(1), including a summons requiring immediate attendance under section 124(2), the person would be unlikely to attend before the IBAC, unless the person were arrested under an arrest warrant; and
(i) the evidentiary or intelligence value of the information, document or thing sought to be obtained from the person; and
(c) if the person were not arrested, any information, document or thing sought to be obtained from the person would be lost and could not reasonably be obtained from any other source.
S. 141B inserted by No. 22/2020 s. 7F.