Serious Fraud Office Act 1990

Miscellaneous provisions - Provisions relating to Public Service Act 2020 and other matters

34: Exercise of powers by outside investigators

You could also call this:

"Outside investigators can help the Serious Fraud Office with their powers."

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You can be appointed by the Director to investigate someone's affairs. The Director can authorise you to exercise certain powers with a Serious Fraud Office member. You can also get a search warrant or help a constable execute one. You will be considered a Serious Fraud Office member for the investigation. The Director can give you these powers if you are not a constable. You must follow the rules in sections like section 5 and section 9. When you get a search warrant, you must follow section 15. This helps you do your job as an investigator. You work with a constable or Serious Fraud Office member to execute search warrants.

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33: Delegation of functions or powers, or

"When someone else can do a job or make a decision for the Serious Fraud Office"

35: Indemnity, or

"Protection for the Serious Fraud Office from costs when doing its job"

Part 4Miscellaneous provisions
Provisions relating to Public Service Act 2020 and other matters

34Exercise of powers by outside investigators

Any person (other than a constable) who is appointed by the Director to investigate the affairs, or any aspect of the affairs, of any other person may be authorised by the Director—
to exercise, in the company of a designated member of the Serious Fraud Office, all or any of the powers conferred by section 5 or section 9:
to obtain, subject to section 15, a search warrant under this Act:
to assist any constable or designated member of the Serious Fraud Office to execute any search warrant issued under this Act.

Any person so appointed shall be deemed to be a member of the Serious Fraud Office for the purposes of the investigation in respect of which he or she is appointed.

Notes

Section 34(1): amended, on 1 October 2008, pursuant to section 116(a)(ii) of the Policing Act 2008 (2008 No 72).