New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RESIDENTIAL TENANCIES ACT 2010 - SECT 200

200 Search warrants

(1) An investigator may apply to an issuing officer for the issue of a search warrant for premises if the investigator believes on reasonable grounds--

(a) that a provision of this Act or the regulations is being or has been contravened on the premises, or

(b) that there is on the premises evidence of a contravention of this Act or the regulations.

(2) An issuing officer to whom an application for a search warrant is made under this section may, if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so, issue a search warrant authorising an investigator named in the warrant and any other person named in the warrant--

(a) to enter the premises concerned, and

(b) to search the premises for evidence of a contravention of this Act or the regulations.

(2A) A police officer may accompany an investigator who enters premises and searches for evidence under a search warrant as if the police officer were named in the warrant.

(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--

"issuing officer" means an authorised officer within the meaning of the Law Enforcement (Powers and Responsibilities) Act 2002 .