CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 68
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ACT 2006 - SECT 68
68 . Searching people for things relevant to offences
(1) If an officer
reasonably suspects that a person has in his or her possession or under his or
her control any thing relevant to an offence, the officer —
(a) may
do a basic search or a strip search of the person; and
(b) may,
subject to section 146, seize any thing relevant to an offence that the
officer finds, whether or not it is a thing that the officer suspected was in
the possession or under the control of the person; and
(c)
whether or not the officer seizes the thing, may do a forensic examination on
it.
(2) For the purposes
of exercising the powers in subsection (1), the officer may enter any place
where the person to be searched is reasonably suspected by the officer to be
and search it for the person, but may not enter —
(a) a
dwelling; or
(b) the
area associated with a dwelling, unless the officer reasonably suspects that
the person —
(i)
is in that area; and
(ii)
does not reside in the dwelling; and
(iii)
does not have the express or implied permission of a
person who does reside in the dwelling to be in that area.
(3) For the purposes
of exercising the powers in subsection (1), the officer may stop and enter a
vehicle in which the person to be searched is reasonably suspected by the
officer to be and search it for the person.
(4) The powers in
subsection (3) may be exercised by an officer in the area associated with a
dwelling but only if the officer reasonably suspects that —
(a) the
person in charge of the vehicle does not reside in the dwelling; and
(b) the
vehicle is not in that area with the express or implied permission of a person
who does reside in the dwelling.
(5) A power in this
section to search a place or vehicle is limited to searching the place or
vehicle for the person to be searched.