466Justice may issue warrant to search for gunpowder[[38]](#endnote-39)

466 Justice may issue warrant to search for gunpowder[[38]](#endnote-39)

Where any credible person on oath or by affirmation before a magistrate shows reasonable cause to suspect that a person named or described has in his possession or on his premises any machine or implement or gunpowder or other explosive dangerous or noxious substance or things suspected to be made or kept or carried for the purpose of committing any of the felonies in Division one or three of Part I, the magistrate may grant a warrant to search for the same by day or by night.

S. 467 repealed by No. 25/1989 s. 16.

Ss 468, 469 repealed by No. 25/1989 s. 9.

cf. [1819] 60 George III,
and 1 George IV, c. VIII ss 1, 2, 4, 8.
(Criminal Libel Act 1819.)

S. 469AA inserted by No. 9407 s. 2(f).

469AA Seizure and destruction of documents containing libel

(1) Upon the conviction of any person for—

(a) publishing a blasphemous libel; or

(b) publishing a seditious libel—

the Court by which such conviction is recorded may order the seizure and destruction of any documents proved to exist and to contain any such libel or to have been written, printed or published in breach of the said section.

(2) Any such order shall be carried into execution not earlier than thirty days from the making thereof or at such time as a court of competent jurisdiction may order.

S. 469AA(3) amended by No. 68/2009 s. 97(Sch. item 40.41).

(3) If the conviction is set aside on appeal, the order for seizure and destruction shall be ipso facto vacated.

S. 469A inserted by No. 7088 s. 2(f), amended by No. 57/1989 s. 3(Sch. item 42.62).

469A Power of persons to search aircraft

(1) If, the person in command of the aircraft or any person authorized in writing in a particular case by a magistrate reasonably suspects that an offence involving the safety of an aircraft has been, is being or may be committed on board or in relation to an aircraft, he may, with such assistance as is necessary, search or cause to be searched—

(a) the aircraft and any person, luggage or freight on board the aircraft; and

(b) any person who is about to board the aircraft and any luggage or freight that is about to be placed on board the aircraft.

(2) A female shall not be searched under the last preceding subsection except by a female.

(32) Search warrants for women and girls

No. 6103 s. 470.

470 Power of search when female unlawfully detained for immoral purposes