Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003

1: Preliminary and key provisions

10 Power to issue search warrants in respect of offences against section 7 or section 9




    10 Power to issue search warrants in respect of offences against section 7
or section 9

  (1)  A search warrant may be issued under section 198 of the Summary
Proceedings Act 1957 in respect of an offence which has been or is suspected to
have been committed against section 7 or section 9 or which is believed to be
intended to be committed against either section, even though the offence is not
punishable by imprisonment.

  (2)  Section 199 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957, so far as it is
applicable and with any necessary modifications, applies to any thing seized
under a warrant provided for by sub- section (1).

  (3)  It is declared that a person who, under section 199 of the Summary
Proceedings Act 1957 (as applied by subsection (2)), has custody of any thing
seized under a warrant provided for by subsection (1), may disclose any
information contained in or derived from the thing only---

      (a)  for the purposes of section 199 of that Act (as so applied); or

      (b)  for the purposes of investigating or prosecuting an offence; or

      (c)  for the purpose of an appeal or other application that relates to an
offence; or

      (d)  for the purpose of complying with any enactment or any order or
direction of a court of competent jurisdiction.

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