48Content of warrants

#### 48 Content of warrants (1) If a magistrate issues a search warrant, the magistrate is to state in the warrant: (a) the purpose for which it is issued, including the Tribunal offence to which the application for the warrant relates; and (b) a description of the premises to which the warrant relates or the name or description of the person to whom it relates; and (c) the kinds of evidential material that are to be searched for under the warrant; and (d) the name of the police officer who, unless he or she inserts the name of another police officer in the warrant, is to be responsible for executing the warrant; and (e) the period for which the warrant remains in force, which must not be more than: (i) if the warrant is issued on an application by telephone, telex, fax or other electronic means as provided by section 52—48 hours; or (ii) otherwise—7 days; and (f) whether the warrant may be executed at any time or only during particular hours. (2) Paragraph (1)(e) does not prevent the issue of successive warrants in relation to the same premises or person. (3) The magistrate is also to state, in a warrant in relation to premises: (a) that the warrant authorises the seizure of a thing (other than evidential material of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(c)) found at the premises in the course of the search that the executing officer or an officer assisting believes on reasonable grounds to be: (i) evidential material; or (ii) a thing relevant to an indictable offence against an Australian law; if the executing officer or an officer assisting believes on reasonable grounds that seizure of the thing is necessary to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction or its use in committing a Tribunal offence or an indictable offence against an Australian law; and (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 officer assisting suspects on reasonable grounds that the person has any evidential material or seizable items in his or her possession. (4) The magistrate is also to state, in a warrant in relation to a person: (a) that the warrant authorises the seizure of a thing (other than evidential material of the kind referred to in paragraph (1)(c)) found, in the course of the search, in the possession of the person or in or on a recently used conveyance, being a thing that the executing officer or an officer assisting believes on reasonable grounds to be: (i) evidential material; or (ii) a thing relevant to an indictable offence against an Australian law; if the executing officer or an officer assisting believes on reasonable grounds that seizure of the thing is necessary to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction or its use in committing a Tribunal offence or an indictable offence against an Australian law; and (b) the kind of search of a person that the warrant authorises.