CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 132

CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 132

132 .         Places may be entered and vehicles may be stopped

        (1)         In this section —

        arrestable person means a person who may be arrested —

            (a)         under a warrant issued under Part 9; or

            (b)         under section 88(3) or 96(3); or

            (c)         under an approval given under section 98; or

            (d)         under section 128; or

            (e)         under an arrest warrant; or

            (f)         under the Criminal Investigation (Identifying People) Act 2002 ; or

            (g)         under the Criminal Investigation (Extra-territorial Offences) Act 1987 .

        (2)         For the purposes of arresting an arrestable person a police officer or a public officer —

            (a)         may enter a place where the officer reasonably suspects the person is and search it for the person; and

            (b)         may stop and enter a vehicle in which the officer reasonably suspects the person is and search it for the person.

        (3)         If the officer reasonably suspects that an arrestable person is in a building that consists of 2 or more dwellings then the power in subsection (2)(a) is limited to entering and searching —

            (a)         the parts of the building that the occupiers of the dwellings use in common with each other; and

            (b)         any individual dwelling where the officer reasonably suspects the person is.

        (4)         The power in this section to search is limited to searching for the arrestable person.

        (5)         If an officer doing a search under this section finds a thing relevant to an offence, the officer —

            (a)         may, subject to section 146, seize it; and

            (b)         whether or not the officer seizes it, may do a forensic examination on it.

        [Section 132 amended: No. 22 of 2013 s. 29(3).]