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PROCEEDS OF CRIME ACT 1987 - SECT 70

Powers to search for, and seize, documents relevant to locating etc. property

             (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.



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