New South Wales Consolidated Acts

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS ACT 1996 - SECT 388

388 Search warrant

(1) An inspector may apply to an authorised officer for the issue of a search warrant if the inspector has reasonable grounds for believing that a provision of the industrial relations legislation or an industrial instrument has been or is being contravened in any premises.

(2) The authorised officer to whom the application is made may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising the inspector named in the warrant, when accompanied by a police officer--

(a) to enter the premises, and

(b) to search the premises for evidence of a contravention of the industrial relations legislation or industrial instrument,

(c) to seize anything that the inspector reasonably considers to be evidence of a contravention of the industrial relations legislation or an industrial instrument.

(3) Division 4 of Part 5 of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 applies to a search warrant issued under this section.

(4) In this section--

"authorised officer" has the same meaning as it has in the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .