Section 100
of Criminal Asset Recovery Order, 2012
Section 100
(1)
Where an authorised officer is satisfied, or has reason to suspect, that a person has committed an offence under this Order or that there is tainted property in relation to a serious offence, he may without warrant –
(a)
enter any premises belonging to or in the possession or control of the person or his employee, and in the case of a body corporate, its director or manager;
(b)
search the premises for any property, record, report or document;
(c)
inspect, make copies of or take extracts from any record, report or document so seized and detained;
(d)
take possession of, and remove from the premises, any property, record, report or document so seized and detained and detain it for such period as he deems necessary;
(e)
search any person who is in, or on, such premises, if the authorised officer has reason to suspect that that person has on his person any property, record, report or document, including personal document, necessary, in the authorised officer’s opinion for the purpose of investigation into an offence under this Order;
(f)
break open, examine and search any article, container or receptacle; or
(g)
stop, detain or search any conveyance.
(2)
An authorised officer may, if it is necessary to do so –
(a)
break open any outer or inner door of such premises or conveyance and enter such premises or conveyance;
(b)
remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search, seizure, detention or removal as he is empowered to effect; or
Incorporating amendments until S 22/2017
(Cleancopy) NHN/Amiriah/Bb/Karimah as of 26.12.2019
*Note: amendment on page 7,75,81,123 on 11.01.2020
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BLUV as at 11th March 2017
(c)
detain any person found on such premises, or in such conveyance, until the search is completed.
(3)
An authorised officer may seize, take possession of, and detain for such duration as he thinks necessary, any property, record, report or document produced before him in the course of his investigation or found on the person who is being searched by him.
(4)
An authorised officer, in the course of his investigation or search shall –
(a)
prepare an inventory of every property, record, report or document seized signed by him and the occupant of the premises; and
(b)
state in the inventory the location in which, or the person on whom, the property, record, report or document is found.
(5)
The occupant of the premises entered in the course of the investigation or any person on his behalf, shall be present during the search, and a copy of the list prepared under subsection (4) shall be delivered to such person at his request.
Power to examine persons.