Singapore legislation
Section 62
Section 62
Search of house suspected to contain stolen property, forged documents, or forged or counterfeited trade marks
If a Magistrate’s Court upon information and after such inquiry as it thinks necessary has reason to believe that any place is used —
for the deposit or sale of stolen property or of property unlawfully obtained or of goods in respect of which an offence has been committed under sections 70, 71, 72, 73 and 74 of the Trade Marks Act [Cap. 332] or sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act [Cap. 53];
for the deposit or sale or manufacture of forged documents, false seals or counterfeit stamps or coin or forged or counterfeited trade marks or instruments or materials for counterfeiting coin or stamps or for forging; or
for the concealing, keeping or depositing of any stolen property or property unlawfully obtained, forged documents, false seals or counterfeit stamps or coin or forged or counterfeited trade marks or instruments or materials used for counterfeiting coin or stamps or for forging,the Court may by warrant authorise the person to whom it is directed to —
enter that place with such assistance as may be required;
search it in the manner, if any, specified in the warrant;
take possession of any goods, property, documents, seals, stamps, coins or trade marks found in it which he reasonably suspects to be the subject of an offence committed under sections 70, 71, 72, 73 and 74 of the Trade Marks Act [Cap. 332.] or sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act [Cap. 53] or to be stolen, unlawfully obtained, forged, false or counterfeit and also of any such instruments and materials as aforesaid;
convey such goods, property, documents, seals, stamps, coins, trade marks, instruments or materials before a Magistrate’s Court, or to guard the same on the spot until the offender is taken before a Magistrate’s Court or otherwise to dispose thereof in some place of safety; and
take into custody and produce before a Magistrate’s Court every person found in that place who appears to have been privy to the deposit, sale or manufacture or keeping of any such goods, property, documents, seals, stamps, coins, trade marks, instruments or materials knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect the goods to have been the subject of an offence committed under sections 70, 71, 72, 73 and 74 of the Trade Marks Act [Cap. 332.] or sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Consumer Protection (Trade Descriptions and Safety Requirements) Act [Cap. 53] or the property to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained, or the documents, seals, stamps, coins, trade marks to have been forged, falsified or counterfeited or the instruments or materials to have been or to be intended to be used for counterfeiting coin or stamps or for forging.[61[Form 9.]