If the person in charge of carrying out a search can't have the actual search warrant with them when they do the search, they can use other documents instead. These documents are treated the same as the real warrant. They can use either:

1. A fax or electronic copy of the warrant that the official who issued it has sent, or
2. A copy of the words of the warrant that someone has made because the official who issued it told them to. The person who made this copy needs to write on it that they made it because the official told them to.

These other documents work just like the real warrant when the search is being done.