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Schedule 5 Powers of entry, search, seizure and retention

Section 24.

Introductory

1 This Schedule confers powers of entry, search, seizure and retention on constables in connection with the imposition of measures on individuals.

2 A power conferred on a constable by virtue of this Schedule -

(a) is additional to powers which the constable has at common law or by virtue of any other enactment, and

(b) is not to be taken as affecting those powers.

3 A constable may detain an individual for the purpose of carrying out a search of that individual under a power conferred by virtue of this Schedule.

4 A constable may use reasonable force, if necessary, for the purpose of exercising a power conferred on the constable by virtue of this Schedule.

Entry and search for purposes of serving TPIM notice

5

(1) For the purpose of serving a relevant notice on an individual, a constable may -

(a) enter any premises where the constable has reasonable grounds for believing the individual to be, and

(b) search those premises for that individual.

(2) A "relevant notice" means -

(a) a TPIM notice;