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WEAPONS ACT 1999 - SECT 13

13 .         Search and seizure without a warrant

        (1)         A member of the Police Force may without a warrant stop, detain and search anyone who the member suspects on reasonable grounds to be —

            (a)         committing an offence;

            (b)         carrying a weapon relating to an offence; or

            (c)         carrying something else that will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence.

        (2)         A member of the Police Force may without a warrant stop, detain and search any conveyance where the member suspects on reasonable grounds that there is located —

            (a)         a weapon relating to an offence; or

            (b)         anything else that will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence.

        (3)         A member of the Police Force may without a warrant seize —

            (a)         any weapon that the member suspects on reasonable grounds relates to an offence; or

            (b)         anything else that the member suspects on reasonable grounds will afford evidence as to the commission of an offence.



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