Section 262Part 9 — Offences Relating to Property
Search for stolen goods
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262. (1) If it is made to appear by information on oath before a justice of the peace that there is reasonable cause to believe that any person has in that person’s custody or in that person’s possession or on that person’s premises any stolen goods, the justice may grant a warrant to search for and seize the same; but no warrant to search for stolen goods shall be addressed to a person other than a constable except under the authority of an enactment so providing.
A police officer of not below the rank of inspector may give a constable written authority to search any premises for stolen goods —
if the person in occupation of the premises has been convicted within the preceding five years of handling stolen goods or of any offence involving dishonesty and punishable with imprisonment; or
if a person who has been convicted within the preceding five years of handling stolen goods has within the preceding twelve months been in occupation of the premises.
Where under this section a person is authorised to search premises for stolen goods, that person may enter and search the premises accordingly, and may seize any goods that person believes to be stolen goods and arrest the person in whose possession or custody such goods are found.