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Crown Minerals Act 1991

Permits, access to land, and other matters - Offences and miscellaneous - Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99C: Application for warrant for entry to search

You could also call this:

"Asking for a special permit to search a place for something illegal"

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If you want to search a place, you need to get a special paper called a warrant. An issuing officer can give you this warrant if they think there is something at the place that breaks the law. This could be something that has already broken the law, something that will help prove the law was broken, or something that will be used to break the law.

You can ask for this warrant if you are a police officer or a special officer who has been given permission by the Minister. The Minister is a person in charge of making big decisions. You have to follow the rules in the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 to get the warrant.

The place you want to search can be a house, a building, a car, or even a ship. The issuing officer has to be satisfied that there are good reasons to think that something is at the place that breaks the law. This is all part of the Crown Minerals Act 1991.

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Part 1BPermits, access to land, and other matters
Offences and miscellaneous: Provisions relating to enforcement officers, auditing, and requiring information

99CApplication for warrant for entry to search

  1. An issuing officer (within the meaning of section 3(1) of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012) may issue a warrant authorising the entry and search of any place, structure, vehicle, or ship if, on an application made in the manner provided in subpart 3 of Part 4 of that Act, he or she is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that there is in, on, under, or over any place, structure, vehicle, or ship anything—

  2. in respect of which an offence has been or is suspected of having been committed against this Act or the regulations; or
    1. that will be evidence of an offence against this Act or the regulations; or
      1. that is intended to be used for the purpose of committing an offence against this Act or the regulations.

        1. An application may be made under subsection (1) by—

        2. a constable; or
          1. an enforcement officer specifically authorised in writing by the Minister to apply for search warrants.

            Notes
            • Section 99C: inserted, on , by section 52 of the Crown Minerals Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 14).
            • Section 99C(1): amended, on , by section 23 of the Crown Minerals (Decommissioning and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 53).