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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Amendments, repeals, and miscellaneous provisions - Regulation-making powers, transitional provisions, and review provision - Transitional provisions

345: Disclosure of prior warrants in applications for search warrants

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"Telling the court about past search warrants when you apply for a new one"

When you apply for a search warrant, you need to tell the court about any prior warrants. For three months after a certain law starts, you must tell the court about all prior warrants since that law began, not just the ones from the last three months. This is because of a change to section 98(3)(a) that affects how you disclose prior warrants in your application.

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345Disclosure of prior warrants in applications for search warrants

  1. In the period commencing on the date of commencement of section 98(3)(a) and ending 3 months later, section 98(3)(a) must be read as if for the words within the previous 3 months there were substituted the words since the commencement of this subsection.