(1) Where a member of the Garda Síochána who is in -
(b) any other place under a power of entry authorised by law or to which or in which he or she was expressly or impliedly invited or permitted to be,
finds or comes into possession of any thing, and he or she has reasonable grounds for believing that it is evidence of, or relating to, the commission of an arrestable offence, he or she may seize and retain the thing for use as evidence in any criminal proceedings for such period from the date of seizure as is reasonable or, if proceedings are commenced in which the thing so seized is required for use in evidence, until the conclusion of the proceedings, and thereafter the Police (Property) Act 1897 shall apply to the thing so seized in the same manner as that Act applies to property which has come into the possession of the Garda Síochána in the circumstances mentioned in that Act.
(2) If it is represented or appears to a member of the Garda Síochána propo
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