Western Australian Numbered Acts Western Australian Numbered Acts (1) An entry warrant
has effect according to its content and this section.
(2) An entry warrant
may be executed by any DGO.
(3) An entry warrant
must be executed between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. unless the DGO executing it
suspects on reasonable grounds that —
(a) if
the warrant were executed during those hours, the purposes for which it was
obtained would be frustrated; or
(b) a
dangerous goods incident has occurred, or a dangerous situation exists, at the
place or in the vehicle to be entered.
(4) If in the course
of executing an entry warrant a DGO by chance finds a thing that is not
specified in the warrant and that the DGO suspects on reasonable grounds
is —
(a)
dangerous goods; or
(b)
evidence of a contravention of this Act,
the DGO may seize the
thing if the DGO reasonably suspects it is necessary to do so for one or more
of these purposes —
(c) to
prevent the thing from being concealed, damaged, destroyed, interfered with or
lost;
(d) to
preserve the thing’s evidentiary value;
(e) to
submit the thing to an examination or to testing;
(f) to
prevent the thing being used in the commission of an offence against this Act.