Western Australian Current Acts

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 20

20 .         Power to enter includes power to enter some other places

        (1)         This section applies if under this Act an officer may enter a place, with or without a search warrant.

        (2)         If the place is one of 2 or more premises in one building, then, in order to enter the place, the officer may enter, but not search, any part of the building that the occupiers of the premises use exclusively but in common with each other.

        (3)         If subsection (2) does not apply and the officer reasonably suspects that in order to enter the place it is necessary to enter another place, the officer may enter, but not search, the other place.

        (4)         Section 31 applies to and in respect of the entry of the other place under subsection (3).