(1) Where a police officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is, or there may be within the next following 72 hours, tainted property upon any land or upon or in any premises the police officer may lay before a magistrate an information on oath setting out those grounds and apply for the issue of a warrant to search the land or premises for tainted property.
(2) Where an application is made under subsection (1) for a search warrant, the magistrate may, subject to section 25, issue a warrant authorising a police officer (whether named in the warrant or not) with such assistance and by such force as is necessary and reasonable—
(a) to enter upon the land or upon or into the premises;
(b) to search the land or premises for tainted property; and
(c) to seize property found in the course of the search that the police officer believes on reasonable grounds, to be tainted property.