Plain language law

New Zealand law explained for everyone

Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions - Amendments to search and seizure powers in other enactments (and to related provisions) used for law enforcement purposes or for law enforcement and regulatory purposes - Amendments to Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997

185: Powers of entry with warrant

You could also call this:

"Entering a place with a warrant to find and remove harmful things"

If you have a warrant, you can enter a place to look for certain things. The warrant lets you take and hold any trade name product or agricultural compound that is bad for people's health, animals, or farming. You can also take things that seem to have been left behind and have no owner.

You can do this if you think the product or compound is a risk to public health, farming, or animal welfare. You need to have a good reason to think this, and you should ask questions to make sure. The warrant also lets you take things that appear to have been abandoned, with no one looking after them.

When you have a warrant, you can get help from other people to seize and detain these products or compounds, as stated in section 70.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

This page was last updated on

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM2136906.

Topics:
Crime and justice > Police and safetyEnvironment and resources > Farming and fishingHealth and wellbeing > Public healthHealth and wellbeing > Food and water safety
Previous

184: Issue of search warrants, or

"Getting a search warrant: how the police can search for something with permission"

Next

186: Disposal of property seized, or

"What happens to property that the police take from you if you're found guilty of a crime"

Part 5Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions
Amendments to search and seizure powers in other enactments (and to related provisions) used for law enforcement purposes or for law enforcement and regulatory purposes: Amendments to Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Act 1997

185Powers of entry with warrant

  1. Section 70 is amended by repealing subsections (1) to (4) and substituting the following subsection:

  2. Without limiting the powers conferred by any warrant issued under section 69(1), and subject to any conditions imposed by the issuing officer, every warrant issued under that section authorises the constable or the ACVM officer who is executing it, and any person called on by that constable or ACVM officer to assist, to seize and detain any trade name product or agricultural compound that—

  3. is a risk to public health, agricultural security, trade in or market access for primary produce, or the welfare of animals, or that may breach domestic food residue standards; and
    1. appears to an ACVM officer, who has made such inquiries as appear reasonable in the circumstances, to have been abandoned or to have no apparent or readily identifiable owner.