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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Preservation directions - Applications for preservation directions

79B: Enforcement officer may apply for preservation direction

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"Police can ask to keep evidence safe"

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You can be an enforcement officer who applies for a search warrant to get documents. You can ask the Commissioner for a preservation direction against a person for those documents. This happens if you are satisfied that the conditions in section 79E are met.

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Preservation directions: Applications for preservation directions

79BEnforcement officer may apply for preservation direction

  1. An enforcement officer who may apply for a search warrant to obtain documents may apply to the Commissioner for a preservation direction against a person in respect of those documents if the enforcement officer is satisfied that the conditions specified in section 79E for making the direction against the person are met.

Notes
  • Section 79B: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).