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Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act 2012

Sale and supply of alcohol generally - Offences and closure of premises - Further powers of Police

270: Constable may apply for search warrant

You could also call this:

"Police can ask for permission to search a place if they think alcohol laws are being broken."

If you are a police officer, you can ask for a special permission called a search warrant to look at someone's premises. You need to follow the rules in the Search and Surveillance Act 2012 to get this permission, which is explained in section 3 and subpart 3 of that Act. The person who gives you the permission must believe there are good reasons to think someone is selling alcohol in a place where they are not allowed to, or that someone is using a place to drink alcohol when they are not supposed to.

The person who gives you the permission can also add some conditions to the search warrant. This means they can tell you what you can and cannot do when you are searching the premises. You have to follow these conditions when you are searching.

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Part 2Sale and supply of alcohol generally
Offences and closure of premises: Further powers of Police

270Constable may apply for search warrant

  1. A constable may apply for a search warrant to search any premises.

  2. An issuing officer (within the meaning of section 3 of the Search and Surveillance Act 2012) may, on an application by a constable in the manner provided in subpart 3 of Part 4 of that Act, issue a search warrant to search any premises if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for believing that—

  3. any alcohol is being sold, or displayed or kept for sale, on any premises in which it may not lawfully be sold, or displayed or kept for sale; or
    1. any premises is being kept or used as a place of resort for the consumption of alcohol in contravention of this Act.

      1. The issuing officer may impose reasonable conditions on the execution of the warrant.

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