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Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1992

Requests to New Zealand - Requests for surveillance device warrants - Other applicable provisions of Search and Surveillance Act 2012

50F: Form and content of warrant

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"What a surveillance warrant must look like and what it must say"

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When you get a surveillance device warrant, it must follow the rules in section 55 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012. You need to read the references to the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 as if they are part of this subpart. Section 55(3)(h) of that Act does not allow highly restricted surveillance in this case.

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Part 3Requests to New Zealand
Requests for surveillance device warrants: Other applicable provisions of Search and Surveillance Act 2012

50FForm and content of warrant

  1. Section 55 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 applies in relation to a surveillance device warrant issued under this subpart.

  2. For that purpose, a reference in that section to a provision of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 that is applied by this subpart is to be read as a reference to that provision as so applied.

  3. Section 55(3)(h) of that Act, as applied by this section, does not authorise highly restricted surveillance.

Notes
  • Section 50F: inserted, on , by section 40 of the Budapest Convention and Related Matters Legislation Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 39).