Sch 4Search and seizure warrant

Schedule 4—Search and seizure warrant

Regulation 57

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This warrant is issued for the purpose of searching for and seizing the motor vehicle described.

Description of motor vehicle authorised for seizure:

• Registration number (if known):

• Vehicle identifier (if known):

• Engine identification number (if known):

• Make, model and colour of motor vehicle:

Premises which may be searched for motor vehicle:

Number and name of street and suburb or other description of premises:

Grounds for issue of warrant:

Reasonable grounds for believing that the motor vehicle described above—

🞏 is

🞏 may be within the next 72 hours—

in or on the premises described.

This warrant is issued to the following police officer(s)—

• Name:

• Rank number:

• Agency and address:

This warrant authorises the police officer(s) named, with the aid of any assistants considered reasonably necessary to achieve the purpose for which the warrant was issued, to—

🞏 enter the premises described;

🞏 use reasonable force to break into or open any structure on the premises described above that may store the motor vehicle described;

🞏 search for and seize the motor vehicle described.

This warrant also authorises the police officer(s) named, or a person assisting that police officer or those police officers, to seize and impound or immobilise the motor vehicle described in this warrant.

Nothing in this warrant authorises the seizure of property not described in this warrant or the arrest of a person.

This warrant ceases to have effect if it is recalled and cancelled by the magistrate who issued it. If it is not recalled and cancelled, this warrant ceases to have effect at the end of one month after its issue or when it is executed, whichever occurs first.

The person who executes this warrant must announce that the person is authorised by the warrant to enter the premises and must give any person at the premises an opportunity to allow entry to the premises before force is used to enter.

If the occupier is present at the premises where this warrant is being executed, the person executing the warrant must identify themselves to the occupier and give the occupier a copy of the warrant. If the occupier is not present at the premises where this warrant is being executed, the person executing the warrant must identify themselves to any other person at the premises and give that person a copy of the warrant.