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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Miscellaneous provisions - Compliance and enforcement - Power to obtain information

292: Continuation of powers of entry and inspection without search warrants

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"Compliance officers can keep inspecting without a search warrant if they already found rule-breaking evidence"

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If you are a compliance officer, you can keep using your powers under section 287 if you find evidence that someone is not following the rules. You do not need to get a search warrant under section 289 to keep using these powers. This is allowed because you already found evidence of someone not following the rules while you were exercising your powers under section 287.

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Part 5Miscellaneous provisions
Compliance and enforcement: Power to obtain information

292Continuation of powers of entry and inspection without search warrants

  1. A compliance officer who, in the course of exercising a power under section 287, finds evidence of contravention of a relevant compliance requirement is not required to obtain a search warrant under section 289 to continue exercising powers under section 287.

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