Victorian Current Acts Victorian Current Acts(1) A POCTA inspector, with the written approval of the Department Head, may apply to a magistrate for the issue of a search warrant in relation to premises (including residential premises), if the inspector believes on reasonable grounds that there is in or on the premises a thing or things of a particular kind connected with a contravention of this Act or regulations under this Act.
S. 24K(2) amended by Nos 60/2015 s. 18, 6/2018 s. 68(Sch. 2 item 100.2).
(2) If a magistrate is satisfied, by the evidence, on oath or by affirmation or by affidavit, of the inspector that there are reasonable grounds to believe that there is a thing or things of a particular kind connected with a contravention of this Act or regulations under this Act in or on any premises, the magistrate may issue a search warrant, in accordance with the Magistrates' Court Act 1989 , authorising a POCTA inspector named in the warrant, or another POCTA inspector who is acting on behalf of that inspector, together with any other person or persons named or otherwise identified in the warrant and with any necessary equipment—
(a) to enter the premises specified in the warrant; and
(b) to do all or any of the following—
(i) search for;
(ii) seize;
(iii) secure against interference;
(iv) examine, inspect and take and keep samples of or from;
(v) take photographs (including video recordings) of—
a thing or things of a particular kind named or described in the warrant and which the inspector believes, on reasonable grounds, to be connected with the alleged contravention.
S. 24KA inserted by No. 60/2012 s. 38.