New Zealand Legislation: Acts

123 Entry and search under warrant under section 122

• (1) A warrant under section 122 authorises a member of the police executing the warrant, except as provided in subsection (2),—

  • (a) to enter and search the specified place, craft, or vehicle on 1 occasion within 10 working days of the date of issue of the warrant at any time that is reasonable in the circumstances, but subject to any conditions imposed by the District Court Judge under section 122(4); and

  • (b) to use any assistance that is reasonable in the circumstances; and

  • (c) to use any force for making entry (whether by breaking open doors or otherwise) as is reasonable in the circumstances; and

  • (d) to use any force for breaking open any thing and for searching for, or removing from the place, craft, or vehicle any information, class of information, document, class of documents, or other thing, specified in the relevant notice under section 120, as is reasonable in the circumstances; and

  • (e) to take copies of, or extracts from, or to reproduce in usable form any information in, any documents specified in the relevant notice under section 120; and

  • (f) to require a person at or in the place, craft, or vehicle at the time of entry to do, or to help the member of the police executing the warrant to do, what is specified in paragraph (e).

  (2) No warrant under section 122 authorises a member of the police to take any action in respect of a thing that is being withheld in accordance with section 125.