Part 5Powers in relation to civil defence emergency management
80Powers conferred by warrant
Subject to any special conditions stated in the warrant under section 79, every warrant issued under section 78 authorises the constable executing the warrant—
- to enter and search the premises stated in the warrant at any time by day or night during the currency of the warrant; and
- to use any assistants that may be reasonable in the circumstances for the purpose of the entry and search; and
- to use any force that is reasonable in the circumstances for the purposes of effecting entry, and for breaking open anything in or on the place searched; and
- to search for and seize the information referred to in section 78, and for that purpose,—
- to take copies of any document, or extracts from any document; and
- to require any person who has a document in his or her possession or under his or her control to reproduce, or to assist the person executing the warrant to reproduce, in usable form, any information recorded or stored in the document.
- to take copies of any document, or extracts from any document; and
Every person called on to assist any constable executing a warrant issued under section 78 has the powers described in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection (1).