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Serious Fraud Office Act 1990

General provisions relating to warrants and exercise of powers under Parts 1 and 2 - General provisions relating to warrants

14: Disclosure of previous applications

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"Tell us about other similar applications made in the last 28 days"

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When you apply for a warrant under this Act, you must tell us about other applications. You must have made reasonable enquiries first. You need to disclose details of any other warrant applications made in the last 28 days by a Serious Fraud Office member for the same place. You also need to say what happened with those applications.

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Part 3General provisions relating to warrants and exercise of powers under Parts 1 and 2
General provisions relating to warrants

14Disclosure of previous applications

  1. Any person applying for a warrant under this Act shall, having made reasonable enquiries, disclose on the application—

  2. details of any other applications for a warrant which that person knows to have been made within the previous 28 days by a member of the Serious Fraud Office in respect of the place specified; and
    1. the result of that application or those applications.