POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 160
Search to prevent loss of evidence
POLICE POWERS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ACT 2000 - SECT 160
Search to prevent loss of evidence
160 Search to prevent loss of evidence
(1) This section applies if a police
officer reasonably suspects—
(a) a thing at or about a place, or in the
possession of a person at or about a place is evidence of the commission of a
part 2 offence; and
(b) the evidence may be concealed or destroyed unless the
place is immediately entered and searched.
(2) This section also applies if a
police officer reasonably suspects a part 2 offence has been, is being, or may
be committed in, on or in relation to a transport vehicle and involves the
safety of the vehicle or anyone who may be in or on it.
(3) A police officer
may enter the place and exercise search warrant powers, other than power to do
something that may cause structural damage to a building, at the place as if
they were conferred under a search warrant.
