Section 43Part 4 — Powers, Duties and Privileges of Police Officers
Duty to make records concerning searches
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43. (1) Where a police officer has carried out a search in the exercise of any power as is mentioned in section 42(1), the police officer shall —
make a record of it in writing upon completion of the search; or
where it is not practicable to make the record on the spot, the police officer shall make it as soon as practicable after the completion of the search.
The record of a search of a person shall include a note of that person’s name, if the police officer knows it.
If a police officer does not know the name of a person whom the police officer has searched, the record of the search shall include a note otherwise describing that person.
The record of a search of a vehicle shall include a note describing and identifying the vehicle.
The record of a search of a person or a vehicle —
shall state —
the object of the search;
the grounds for making it;
the date and time when it was made;
the place where it was made;
whether anything, and if so what, was found; appears to the police officer to have resulted from the search; and
whether any, and if so what, injury to a person or damage to property
shall identify the police officer making it.
If — Police Act (2021 Revision) Section 44 c Revised as at 31st December, 2020 Page 41
a person who has been searched requests a copy of the record of the search; and
the police officer who conducted the search made a record of it, the person who made the request shall be entitled to a copy.
If —
the owner of a vehicle which has been searched or the person who was in charge of the vehicle at the time when it was searched requests a copy of the record of the search; and
the police officer who conducted the search made a record of it, the person who made the request shall be entitled to a copy.
The requirements imposed by this section with regard to records of searches of vehicles shall apply also to records of searches of vessels, aircraft and hovercraft.