Search Warrant Enforcement Administration and Territory Act 2025

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Repealed by Why do we have 2 Search Warrant Acts Amendment 2025 passed and signed on 20 December 2025.

Search Warrant Enforcement Administration and Territory Act 2025

Passed and signed on 24 October 2025.

Authored by mypenjustbroke

Sponsored by Senators Copybare and mercury_fede

Preamble

Whereas search warrants are great and legal;

Recognizing people aren’t complying with search warrants; and

Proposing a solution to the enforcement and otherwise performance of search warrants.

Article 1: Search Warrant Applicability

§1. Any individual, group of individuals, business, legal entity, or government department may be issued a search warrant.

§2. Any internal investigative service does not need a warrant to obtain information that is obtainable without a warrant or information that is logged in message logs.

§3. For a search warrant to have legal repercussions for non-compliance, it must have been signed by a Judge or Justice before being issued to an individual, group of individuals, business, legal entity, or government department; they must have been informed of the warrant; and they must not have complied with the search warrant.

§4. Search warrants must contain what an internal investigative body is attempting to find.

§4.1. In the event other illegal activity is found during a search, it is admissible as evidence in a court of law; however, to find more on this other illegal activity, a new search warrant must be made.

Article 2: Enforcement

§1. A search warrant may be enforced by judicial orders.

§1.1. An officer of a relevant investigative body may petition the court for enforcement of a warrant not before twenty-four hours after the warrant's approval by a relevant Judge or Justice.

§1.2. If a petition is made for enforcement of a search warrant, then the court of original jurisdiction shall hear the petition within 48 hours of the petition.

§1.3. If a Judge or Justice of a court finds through a petition hearing upon fact and law that a receiver of a search warrant—who is a defendant in a case being investigated—has not complied with a search warrant within twenty-four hours of the warrant’s approval, then the relevant judge may impose an enforcement order.

§2. Judges may impose the following orders as a coercive measure until the search warrant is complied with:

§2.1. levies upon personal property at the Judge’s or Justice’s discretion;

§2.2. temporary detainment, if not complied with within twenty-four hours of service of the warrant;

§2.3. temporary banning, if not complied with within seven days of service of the warrant;

§2.4. other remedies only when the non-compliant party strictly and grossly refuses to comply.

Article 3: Jurisdiction

§1. The SimDemocracy Court of Review shall have original jurisdiction over petition hearings arising from the enforcement of search warrants.

§1.1. This section shall not include search warrants that arise out of the colonies, except where the matter in controversy arises either through diversity of litigants or where the non-compliant party is an executive officer of SimDemocracy.

§1.2. In cases where the previous section does not apply, the respective colonial court of general jurisdiction shall have original jurisdiction over petition hearings arising from the enforcement of search warrants.

Article 4: Implementation

§1. This Act shall go into effect immediately upon passage.