Resource Management Act 1991

334 Application for warrant for entry for search

• (1) Any District Court Judge or any duly authorised Justice or any Community Magistrate or Registrar who, on an application in writing made on oath, is satisfied that there is reasonable ground for believing that there is in, on, under, or over any place or vehicle anything—

  • (a) in respect of which an offence has been or is suspected of having been committed against this Act or regulations that is punishable by imprisonment; or

  • (b) which there is reasonable grounds to believe will be evidence of an offence against this Act or regulations that is punishable by imprisonment; or

  • (c) anything which there is reasonable ground to believe is intended to be used for the purpose of committing an offence against this Act or regulations that is punishable by imprisonment—

  may issue a warrant authorising the entry and search of any place or vehicle on 1 occasion within 14 days of the date of issue of the warrant and at any time which is reasonable in the circumstances.

  (2) Any warrant issued under subsection (1) shall be subject to such conditions as the issuer may specify in the warrant.

  (3) Any person applying for a warrant under subsection (1) shall, having made reasonable enquiries, disclose on the application—

  • (a) details of every other application which that person knows to have been made within the previous 20 days in respect of the place or vehicle specified; and

  • (b) the offence or offences alleged in every such application; and

  • (c) the result of every such application.

  Section 334(1): amended, on 30 June 1998, by section 7 of the District Courts Amendment Act 1998 (1998 No 76).