Planning Act 2023
489Documents given after warrant issued on remote
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489 Documents given after warrant issued on remote (1) After issuing a monitoring warrant on a remote application, the magistrate must immediately give a written copy to the inspector who made the application if it is practicable to do so. (2) If it is not practicable to provide a written copy of the monitoring warrant to the inspector— (i) the warrant’s terms; and (ii) the date and time the warrant was issued; and (b) the inspector must complete a form of warrant (the warrant form) and write on it— (ii) the date and time the magistrate issued the warrant; and (iii) the warrant’s terms.
(3) The inspector must, at the first reasonable opportunity, send to the (a) the sworn application mentioned in section 488 (2); and (b) if the inspector completed a warrant form—the completed warrant form. (4) On receiving the documents mentioned in subsection (3), the magistrate must attach them to the monitoring warrant. (5) A court must find that a power exercised by an inspector was not authorised by a monitoring warrant issued on a remote application if— exercise of power was authorised by a monitoring warrant; and (b) the warrant is not produced in evidence; and monitoring warrant issued on a remote application. remote application—see section 488 (1).