Section 238A - Workplace Injury Management and Workers Compensation Act 1998 - Search warrant

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238A Search warrant

(1) An inspector may apply to an authorised officer within the meaning of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 for a search warrant if the inspector has reasonable grounds for believing that a provision of this Act, the 1987 Act or the regulations under those Acts has been or is being or is about to be contravened in or about any premises.

(2) An authorised officer within the meaning of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 to whom an application is made under this section may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising the inspector named in the warrant—

(a) to enter the premises, and

(b) to search the premises for evidence of a contravention of this Act, the 1987 Act or the regulations under those Acts, and

(c) to exercise in the premises any powers conferred on the inspector under section 238.

(3) Division 4 of Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 applies to a search warrant issued under this section.

(4) In this section—

inspector has the same meaning as it has in section 238.

premises has the same meaning as it has in section 238.

s 238A: Ins 2000 No 87, Sch 15.1 [4]. Am 2002 No 103, Sch 4.98 [1]–[4]; 2012 No 53, Sch 11 [3]–[6].