Rooming House Operators Act 2016
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59 Search warrants
(1) An inspector may apply to a magistrate for the issue of a search warrant in relation to particular premises if the inspector believes on reasonable grounds that there is on the premises evidence that a person may have contravened this Act or the regulations.
(2) An application under subsection (1) must not be made without the written approval of the Director.
S. 59(3) amended by No. 6/2018 s. 68(Sch. 2 item 110).
(3) If a magistrate is satisfied by evidence, on oath or by affirmation or by affidavit, that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is on the premises a thing, or a thing of a particular kind, connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations, the magistrate may issue the search warrant in accordance with the Magistrates' Court Act 1989.