(1)  A search warrant authorizes any police officer, with such assistants as he thinks necessary, to enter and search the premises to which the warrant relates and anything in or on those premises.

(2)  Subject to any direction by a magistrate authorizing execution of a search warrant at night, or during specified hours of the night, it shall not be executed at night.

(3)  A police officer, or a person assisting him, may use such force as is reasonably necessary for the execution of a search warrant.

(4)  A police officer executing a search warrant may seize and remove any object that he believes on reasonable grounds to be relevant to the investigation of the offence in relation to which the warrant was issued.

(5)  An object seized and removed under subsection (4) shall be dealt with in accordance with arrangements entered into under section 7 .

(6)  A police officer who executes a search warrant –

(a) shall prepare a notice, in the prescribed form, containing –

(i) his name and rank;

(ii) the name of the magistrate who issued the warrant and the date and time of its issue; and

(iii) a description of any object seized and removed in pursuance of the warrant; and

(b) shall, as soon as practicable after execution of the warrant, give the notice to the occupier of the premises in relation to which the warrant was issued or leave it for him in a prominent position on those premises.

(7)  A search warrant, if not executed before the expiration of 28 days after the date of its issue shall on the expiration of that period expire.