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Version status: In force | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 3 January 2018 - onwards
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Regulation 105 Search and seizure

(1) If a judge of the District Court is satisfied on the sworn information of an authorised officer or an inspector appointed under Regulation 104 that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there are on any premises any books, records or other documents -

(a) of which production has been required under these Regulations, and

(b) which have not been produced in compliance with that requirement,

the judge may issue a warrant authorising any member of the Gardaí Síochána, together with any other persons named in the warrant and any other members of the Gardaí Síochána, at any time or times within one month after the date of the warrant, on production if so requested of the warrant, to enter the premises specified in the information (using such force as is reasonably necessary for the purpose) and to search the premises or other place specified in the warrant and -

(i) take possession of any books or documents appearing to be such books or documents as aforesaid, or

(ii) to take, in relation to any books or documents so appearing, any other steps which may appear necessary for preserving them and preventing interference with them.

(2) Any books or documents of which possession is taken under this Regulation may be retained for a period of 6 months or -