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Search and Surveillance Act 2012

Enforcement officers' powers and orders - Preservation directions - Service of documents

79V: Service of preservation directions and notices

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When you get certain documents, the rules for serving them are the same as for an order. This includes a preservation direction and any written notice you must get under this part of the law. You can find more information about serving orders in section 181.

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Preservation directions: Service of documents

79VService of preservation directions and notices

  1. Section 181 applies to the following documents as if a reference in that section to an order included a reference to those documents:

  2. a preservation direction (including its replacement after a review under this subpart):
    1. any written notice required to be given under this subpart.

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