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289. Searches

(1) If an officer of Revenue and Customs, a constable, an SFO officer or an accredited financial investigator is lawfully on any premises and has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is on the premises cash -

(a) which is recoverable property or is intended by any person for use in unlawful conduct, and

(b) the amount of which is not less than the minimum amount,

he may search for the cash there.

(1A) The powers specified in subsection (1D) are exercisable if -

(a) an officer of Revenue and Customs, a constable, an SFO officer or an accredited financial investigator has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is cash falling within subsection (1E) in a vehicle, and

(b) it appears to the officer of Revenue and Customs, constable, SFO officer or investigator that the vehicle is under the control of a person (the suspect) who is in or in the vicinity of the vehicle.

(1B) The powers are exercisable only if the vehicle is -

(a) in any place to which, at the time of the proposed

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