TERRORISM (POLICE POWERS) ACT 2002 - SECT 27OB
Access to and downloading of data from computers (including access to computers outside premises the subject of a warrant)
TERRORISM (POLICE POWERS) ACT 2002 - SECT 27OB
Access to and downloading of data from computers (including access to computers outside premises the subject of a warrant)
27OB Access to and downloading of data from computers (including access to
computers outside premises the subject of a warrant)
(1) An eligible person
(within the meaning of section 27O) executing or assisting in the execution of
a warrant may operate equipment at the premises the subject of the warrant to
access data (including data not held at the premises the subject of the
warrant) if the person believes on reasonable grounds that the data might be
data that could be seized under the warrant.
(2) The person executing or
assisting in the execution of the warrant may--
(a) copy any accessed data to
a disk, tape or other data storage device brought to the premises, and
(b)
with the approval of the occupier of the premises, copy any accessed data to a
disk, tape or other data storage device already at the premises, and
(c) take
the disk, tape or other data storage device from the premises to examine the
accessed data to determine whether it (or any part of it) is data that could
be seized under the warrant.
(3) The person executing or assisting in the
execution of the warrant may operate the equipment to put any such data in
documentary form and seize the document so produced.
(4) The person executing
or assisting in the execution of the warrant may seize the equipment and any
disk, tape or other data storage device--
(a) if it is not practicable to
exercise the powers referred to in subsection (2) or (3) in relation to the
data, or
(b) if possession by the occupier of the equipment or device could
constitute an offence.
(5) This section does not authorise the operation of
equipment already at the premises the subject of the warrant to access data
unless the person operating the equipment has reasonable grounds to believe
that the equipment can be operated without damaging the equipment or the data.
