(a)for the deposit or sale of stolen property or of property unlawfully obtained or of goods in respect of which an offence has been committed under section 4 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act 1975;
Section history
Section 25 — Search of house suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, etc.
As in force on 31 December 2021.
The text below is this provision as reproduced in the Revised Edition that came into force on this date. A revised edition consolidates the law without changing its substance, so editorial amendments — such as renumbering, updated citations and formatting — may have been made but are not shown as a redline.
If a court, upon information and after such inquiry as it thinks necessary, has reason to believe that any place is used —
(b)for the deposit or sale or manufacture of any forged document, false seal, counterfeit stamp or coin, or any instrument or material for counterfeiting any coin or stamp or for forging; or
(c)for the concealing, keeping or depositing of any stolen property or property unlawfully obtained, forged document, false seal, counterfeit stamp or coin, or any instrument or material used for counterfeiting any coin or stamp or for forging,
the court may by warrant authorise the person or persons to whom it is issued —
(d)to enter that place with such assistance as may be required;
(e)to search it in the manner, if any, specified in the warrant;
(f)to take possession of any goods, property, document, seal, stamp or coin found in it which any of those persons reasonably suspects to be the subject of an offence committed under section 4 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act 1975 or to be stolen, unlawfully obtained, forged, false or counterfeit, and also of any such instrument and material as aforesaid;
(g)to convey any such goods, property, document, seal, stamp, coin, instrument or material before a Magistrate’s Court, or to guard the same on the spot until the offender is taken before a Magistrate’s Court, or otherwise to dispose thereof in some place of safety; and
(h)to take into custody and produce before a Magistrate’s Court every person found in that place who appears to have been privy to the deposit, sale or manufacture or keeping of any such goods, property, document, seal, stamp, coin, instrument or material knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect —
(i)the goods to have been the subject of an offence committed under section 4 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act 1975;
(ii)the property to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained;
(iii)the document, seal, stamp or coin to have been forged, falsified or counterfeited; or
(iv)the instrument or material to have been or to be intended to be used for counterfeiting any coin or stamp or for forging.