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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 Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978

275: New section 14 substituted

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"Searching a place for Marine Mammals Protection Act breaches"

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You can get a warrant to search a place if you think someone has broken the Marine Mammals Protection Act. An issuing officer can give you this warrant if they believe a breach has happened or will happen. They must follow the rules in the Search and Surveillance Act 2012, which you can find on the New Zealand legislation website. You can search a house, building, vehicle, aircraft, or hovercraft with this warrant. The issuing officer must be satisfied that there are good reasons to think a breach has occurred or will occur. The Search and Surveillance Act 2012 has rules that must be followed when getting a warrant.

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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 Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978

275New section 14 substituted

  1. Section 14 is repealed and the following section substituted:

    14Officer may obtain warrant

    1. An issuing officer (within the meaning of section 3 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012) may, on application by an officer made in the manner provided in subpart 3 of Part 4 of that Act, issue a search warrant, to an officer named in the warrant, authorising the entry and search of any dwellinghouse, place, vehicle, aircraft, or hovercraft if the issuing officer is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds to suspect that—

    2. any breach of this Act or any regulation made under it has been, is being, or will be committed; or
      1. preparation has been made to commit a breach of this kind.

        1. The provisions of Part 4 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 apply.