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Terrorism (Emergency Powers) Act 2003
27NPowers automatically conferred by covert search warrant
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27N Powers automatically conferred by covert search warrant
A covert search warrant authorises the police officer named in the
warrant:
(a) to enter, without any occupier's knowledge, the subject place;
and
(b) to impersonate another person for the purposes of executing
the warrant; and
(c) to use the force that is reasonably necessary for the purposes
of entering and searching the subject place; and
(d) to search the subject place for any kind of thing or class of
thing described in the warrant; and
(e) to break open any receptacle in or on the subject place for the
purposes of that search if it is reasonably necessary to do so;
and
(f) to seize and detain any other thing found in the course of
executing the warrant and that is connected with a serious
indictable offence.