228MEntry with search warrant to find evidence of contravention

228M Entry with search warrant to find evidence of contravention (1) An authorised person may apply to a magistrate for the issue of a search warrant in relation to a particular building or land if the authorised person suspects on reasonable grounds that— (a) there is, or may be within the next 72 hours, in the building or on the land evidence that a person may have contravened this Act or the regulations; or (b) there is evidence in digital or electronic format that a person may have contravened this Act or the regulations that is accessible from the building or land. (2) If a magistrate is satisfied by the evidence, on oath or by affidavit, that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that— (a) there is, or may be within the next 72 hours, in the building or on the land a thing, or thing of a particular kind, connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations; or (b) there is information in digital or electronic format connected with a contravention of this Act or the regulations that is accessible from the building or land— the magistrate may issue the search warrant in accordance with the **Magistrates' Court Act 1989**. S. 228N inserted by No. 21/2017 s. 46.