# Issue of search warrants

> act-s487ZC — as in force on 2026-06-04 — C2026C00232 · Compilation No. 171 — https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2026C00232/latest/text

487ZC Issue of search warrants

               Application for search warrant
          (1) An authorised officer may apply to an issuing officer for a search
              warrant under this section in relation to premises.

               Issue of search warrant
          (2) The issuing officer may issue the search warrant if the issuing
              officer is satisfied, by information on oath or affirmation, that there
              are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is, or there may be
              within the next 72 hours, evidential material on the premises.
          (3) However, the issuing officer must not issue the search warrant
              unless the authorised officer or some other person has given to the
              issuing officer, either orally or by affidavit, such further
              information (if any) as the issuing officer requires concerning the
              grounds on which the issue of the warrant is being sought.

               Content of search warrant
          (4) The search warrant must:
               (a) state:
                      (i) the sponsorship-related offence or offences; or
                     (ii) the sponsorship-related provision or provisions; or
                   (iii) the work-related offence or offences; or
                    (iv) the work-related provision or provisions;
                   to which the warrant relates; and
               (b) describe the premises to which the warrant relates; and









                 (c) state that the warrant is issued under this Subdivision; and
                 (d) specify the kind of evidential material that is to be searched
                      for under the warrant; and
                 (e) state that the evidential material specified, and any other
                      evidential material found in the course of executing the
                      warrant, may be seized under the warrant; and
                  (f) name one or more authorised officers; and
                 (g) authorise the authorised officers named in the warrant:
                        (i) to enter the premises; and
                       (ii) to exercise the powers set out in this Division in relation
                            to the premises; and
                 (h) state whether entry is authorised to be made at any time of
                      the day or during specified hours of the day; and
                  (i) specify the day (not more than 1 week after the issue of the
                      warrant) on which the warrant ceases to be in force.