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Search for suspicious cash
Cap. 104, s. 37B · Revised Edition 2020
(1) A police officer or a customs officer who is lawfully on any premises and who has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is any cash referred to in section 38(1) on the premises,
may search for the cash there.
(2) If a police officer or a customs officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person, is carrying any cash referred to in sub-section 38(1), he may, so far as he thinks it necessary or expedient, require the person–
(a) to provide further information;
(b) to permit a search of any article he has with him; and
(c) to permit a search of his person.
(3) The powers conferred by this section are exercisable only so far as reasonably required for the purpose of finding cash referred to in section 38(1).
Amended by: 4 of 2013; 7 of 2014
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