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Schedule: B - Forms in criminal proceedings

Form: 34.19 Search Warrant (in relation to data/accessing data) - Criminal Damage Act, 1991 section 13 (2)

No. 34. 19

O.34,r.8 (2)

Criminal Damage Act, 1991

Section 13 (2)

Search Warrant

(in relation to data/accessing data)


District Court Area of

District No.

BEING SATISFIED from the application made, by information on oath and in writing sworn before me on this day, by the under-named member of the Garda Síochána for the issue of a search warrant under section 13 (2) of the above-mentioned Act, that there is reasonable cause to believe that a person has in his/her custody or under his/her control or on his/her under-mentioned premises a certain thing, namely, ......... and that it has been used, or is intended for use, without lawful excuse,

*(to damage property, namely, .......... (data) ............. belonging to another,)

*(to damage property, namely, ............ (data) ............ in a way likely to endanger the life of another or with intent to defraud,)

*(to access, or with intent to access, data,)

I HEREBY AUTHORISE .........., a member of the Garda Síochána, of ........., accompanied by such other members of the Garda Síochána as may be necessary, at any time or times within one month of the date hereof, TO ENTER, if need be by force, the premises situated at ........., in the said court district, TO SEARCH the premises and any person found therein, TO SEIZE AND DETAIN anything which he/she believes to have been used or to be intended for use as aforesaid and TO OPERATE or cause to be operated by a person accompanying him/her for that purpose, any equipment in the premises for processing data, INSPECT any data found there and EXTRACT information therefrom, whether by the operation of such equipment or otherwise.

Dated this .... day of ......... 19 ....

Signed ....................

Judge of the District Court

To the Superintendent of the Garda Síochána,

at .......................

*Delete clauses which do not apply