New Zealand Legislation: Acts

9 Search warrants

• Any District Court Judge or Justice or Community Magistrate, or any Registrar of a District Court (not being a constable), may issue a search warrant, if, on application in writing made on oath, he is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for believing that on any premises a contest is being conducted in breach of this Act or any regulations made under it; and the provisions of sections 198 and 199 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957 shall apply accordingly.

  Compare: 1927 No 35 s 69; 1957 No 87 s 198; 1977 No 84 s 117

  Section 9: amended, on 30 June 1998, by section 7 of the District Courts Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 76).