(1) An authorised officer to whom an application is made under subsection (4) may issue a search warrant if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so.(2) The Commissioner, on application made to the Commissioner under subsection (4), may issue a search warrant if the Commissioner thinks fit in the circumstances and if satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for doing so.(3) Search warrants should, as far as practicable, be issued by authorised officers, but nothing in this subsection affects the discretion of the Commissioner to issue them.(4) An officer of the Commission may apply to an authorised officer or the Commissioner for a search warrant if the officer has reasonable grounds for believing that there is in or on any premises a document or other thing connected with any matter that is being investigated under this Act or that such a document or other thing may, within the next following 72 hours, be brought into or onto the premises.
Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 No 35