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Wednesday, 10 November 1982
Page: 3019


Mr N.A. BROWN (Acting Attorney-General)(10.40) —The Government is not able to accept this amendment. May I say in support of that statement that it should be remembered that the sub-clause does not relate, of course, to any matter that may be discovered, but to anything of another kind that the person executing the warrant believes on reasonable grounds to be connected with that matter. The same emphasis is also placed on matters connected with matters being sought under the warrant in clause 14 (1) (b). There is the additional requirement that the person executing the warrant must believe on reasonable grounds that it is necessary to seize the additional matter, whatever it may be, in order to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction. In those circumstances the warrant is deemed to authorise him to seize that thing, whatever it may be. So with those qualifications it seems a reasonable, sensible and commonsense provision to have in the Bill.