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Public Guardian Act 2014
sec.65Warrants—procedure before entry to visitable home
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### sec.65 Warrants—procedure before entry to visitable home
This section applies if a community visitor (child) named in a warrant issued under section 64 for a visitable home is intending to enter the home under the warrant.
Before entering the home, the visitor must do or make a reasonable attempt to do the following things—
identify himself or herself to a person who is a carer staying at the visitable home by producing the visitor’s identity card;
give the person a copy of the warrant;
tell the person the visitor is permitted by the warrant to enter the home;
give the person an opportunity to allow the visitor immediate entry to the home without using force.
(sec.65-ssec.1) This section applies if a community visitor (child) named in a warrant issued under section 64 for a visitable home is intending to enter the home under the warrant.
(sec.65-ssec.2) Before entering the home, the visitor must do or make a reasonable attempt to do the following things— identify himself or herself to a person who is a carer staying at the visitable home by producing the visitor’s identity card; give the person a copy of the warrant; tell the person the visitor is permitted by the warrant to enter the home; give the person an opportunity to allow the visitor immediate entry to the home without using force.
- (a) identify himself or herself to a person who is a carer staying at the visitable home by producing the visitor’s identity card;
- (b) give the person a copy of the warrant;
- (c) tell the person the visitor is permitted by the warrant to enter the home;
- (d) give the person an opportunity to allow the visitor immediate entry to the home without using force.