Section 48: Offences in relation to enforcement officers
Subsection (1) makes it an offence for a person, without reasonable excuse, intentionally to obstruct a relevant enforcement officer in the exercise of his or her powers under sections 36 to 45.
	Subsection (2) makes it an offence for a person, without reasonable excuse, to fail to comply with a reasonable requirement made or direction reasonably given by a relevant enforcement officer under sections 37 to 45. It is also an offence to prevent another person from complying with such a requirement or direction. Such a requirement or direction may be, for example, to open a locked door of a room within premises subject to a search warrant or to open a locked cabinet.
	These offences extend to the obstruction of, or failure to comply with a requirement or direction given by, a person authorised to accompany a relevant enforcement officer (such as a police community support officer) to effect a search of premises (subsection (3)).
	Subsection (4) provides for the maximum penalties for both offences, as follows -