Search and Surveillance Bill

  • enacted

Issuing of search warrant

100 Restrictions on issue of search warrant
  • An issuing officer must not issue a warrant to seize any thing held by a lawyer that is a communication of a kind to which legal professional privilege normally applies, unless the issuing officer is satisfied that there is a prima facie case that the thing was made, or received, or compiled, or prepared—

    • (a) for a dishonest purpose; or

    • (b) for the purpose of planning to commit or committing an offence.