Northern Territory Numbered Acts

INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONER AGAINST CORRUPTION ACT 2017 (NO 23 OF 2017) - SECT 69

    (1)     This section applies if a judicial officer issues a search warrant on an application under section 68 (2)(b)(ii).

    (2)     The judicial officer must:

    (a)     complete and sign the warrant; and

    (b)     inform the authorised officer of its terms; and

    (c)     record on the warrant the reasons for issuing it.

    (3)     The authorised officer must:

    (a)     complete in duplicate a form of warrant in the terms given under subsection (2)(b); and

    (b)     write on both copies the name of the judicial officer and the date and time the warrant was issued; and

    (c)     send one of the copies to the judicial officer.

    (4)     On receiving the copy, the judicial officer must:

    (a)     compare it with the warrant the judicial officer signed; and

    (b)     if satisfied they are in substance identical, note this fact on the warrant and send the warrant and copy to the ICAC.

    (5)     If the form of the warrant prepared under subsection (3)(a) is in substance identical to the warrant signed by the judicial officer under subsection (2)(a), it has the same authority as a search warrant issued under section 68 (3).