PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1987 - SECT 70 Powers to search for, and seize, documents relevant to locating etc. property

PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1987 - SECT 70

  (1)   A police officer may:

  (a)   enter upon land, or upon or into premises;

  (b)   search the land or premises for any property - tracking document in relation to an indictable offence; and

  (c)   seize any document found in the course of the search that the police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, to be a property - tracking document in relation to an indictable offence;

but only if the entry, search or seizure, as the case may be, is made:

  (d)   with the consent of the occupier of the land or premises; or

  (e)   under a warrant issued under section   71.

  (2)   A police officer is not empowered to do anything under this section after the commencement of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 unless it is done under a search warrant issued under section   71 of this Act for which an application was made under that section before that commencement.