27UNotice to occupiers of execution of covert search warrant

27U Notice to occupiers of execution of covert search warrant

27U Notice to occupiers of execution of covert search warrant

(1) A person who executes a covert search warrant is to cause an occupier’s notice to be prepared under this section.

(2) The occupier’s notice—

(a) is to specify the name of the person who applied for the warrant, and

(b) is to specify the name of the eligible Judge who issued the warrant, and

(c) is to specify the date when the warrant was issued, and

(d) is to specify the date when the warrant was executed, and

(e) is to specify the address or other description of the subject premises, and

(f) is to specify the number of police officers or intelligence gathering officers who entered the subject premises for the purposes of executing, or assisting in the execution of, the warrant, and

(g) is to contain a summary of the nature of the warrant (including the grounds on which a covert search warrant may be issued) and the powers conferred and exercised under the warrant, and

(h) is to describe any thing seized or placed in substitution for a seized thing, and

(i) is to describe any thing returned or retrieved under section 27R and the date on which the thing was returned or retrieved, and

(j) if the occupier was not, at the time that the warrant was executed, believed to be knowingly concerned in the commission of the terrorist act in respect of which the warrant was executed—is to state this, and

(k) is to specify or contain any other matters required by the regulations.

(3) Within 6 months of executing the covert search warrant, the person who executed the warrant is to provide the occupier’s notice to the eligible Judge who issued the warrant for that Judge’s approval.

(4) The person must provide such further information (either orally or in writing) as the eligible Judge requires for the purposes of assisting the Judge in determining whether to approve the occupier’s notice.

(5) As soon as practicable after the eligible Judge approves the occupier’s notice, the person who executed the warrant is to cause the notice to be given to—