Singapore legislation

Section 12

of Secondhand Dealers Act

Section 12

Police officers may enter and search licensed dealers’ shops, etc.

Amended by21/73

(1)

Any police officer may enter any licensed dealer’s shop at any time during business hours and may without warrant search the shop for any property which he has reason to suspect to be therein and to be stolen property or to have been lost.

Amended by21/73

(2)

Any police officer may at any time during business hours enter and search without warrant any shop where he has reason to suspect that any person is dealing in secondhand goods without a licence issued under the provisions of this Act.

(3)

Any such police officer may seize any secondhand goods found in such shop.