Wireless Telegraphy Act, 1926

Issue of search warrants.

8.—(1) A Justice of the District Court may, upon the information on oath of an officer of the Minister or of a member of the Gárda Síochána that there is reasonable ground for believing that apparatus for wireless telegraphy is being kept or is being worked or used at any specified place or in any specified ship in contravention of any provision of this Act or any regulation made or condition imposed under this Act, grant to such officer of the Minister or (with the consent of the Minister) to such member of the Gárda Síochána (as the case may be) a search warrant which shall be expressed and shall operate to authorise the officer of the Minister or member of the Gárda Síochána to whom the same is granted to enter, and if need be by force, the place or ship named in the said information and there to search for apparatus for wireless telegraphy and to examine all such apparatus there found and to seize and take away all or any part of such apparatus which appears to such officer or member to be kept, worked or used in contravention of any provision of this Act or any regulation made or condition imposed under this Act.

(2) A search warrant granted under this section to an officer of the Minister may authorise or, if the Justice granting the same so thinks proper, require such officer to be accompanied by one or more members of the Gárda Síochána when making the search under the warrant.