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CRIME (CONFISCATION OF PROFITS) ACT 1993 - SECT 42

Seizure of property pursuant to warrants
(1)  A police officer who executes a search warrant issued under this Part may seize property of the kind specified in the warrant.
(2)  If, in the course of executing a search warrant issued under this Part, a police officer finds any property that the police officer believes on reasonable grounds to be –
(a) tainted property in relation to the relevant serious offence, although not of a kind specified in the warrant; or
(b) tainted property in relation to another serious offence
and the police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, that it is necessary to seize that property to prevent its concealment, loss or destruction, or its use in committing, continuing or repeating the relevant serious offence or the other serious offence, the warrant is taken as authorizing the police officer to seize that property.
(3)  The power conferred by this section to seize a thing includes –
(a) a power to remove the thing from the premises where it is found; and
(b) a power to guard the thing on those premises.



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