134Monitoring warrants

134 Monitoring warrants

(1) A marine safety inspector may apply to a magistrate for a warrant under this section in relation to premises.

(2) The magistrate may issue the warrant if the magistrate is satisfied, by information on oath or affirmation, that it is reasonably necessary that one or more marine safety inspectors should have access to the premises for monitoring purposes.

(3) However, the magistrate must not issue the warrant unless the marine safety inspector or some other person has given to the magistrate, either orally or by affidavit, such further information (if any) as the magistrate requires concerning the grounds on which the issue of the warrant is being sought.

(4) The warrant must:

(a) describe the premises to which the warrant relates; and

(b) state that the warrant is issued under this section; and

(c) state the purpose for which the warrant is issued; and

(d) authorise one or more marine safety inspectors (whether or not named in the warrant) from time to time while the warrant remains in force:

(i) to enter the premises; and

(ii) to exercise the powers set out in sections 103, 104, 106 and 107, and Division 5, in relation to the premises; and

(e) state whether entry is authorised to be made at any time of the day or during specified hours of the day; and

(f) specify the day (not more than 6 months after the issue of the warrant) on which the warrant ceases to be in force.