Singapore legislation
Section 22
Section 22
Search warrants
(1)
Whenever it appears to a Magistrate or a Justice of the Peace upon information and after any inquiry that he or she may consider necessary that there is probable cause to believe that in any dwelling house, shop or other building or place there are concealed or deposited any goods or property liable to forfeiture under this Act, the Magistrate or the Justice of the Peace may, by warrant directed to any senior authorised officer, empower that officer by day or night to enter that dwelling house, shop or other building or place and there to search for and take possession of any goods or property reasonably suspected to be so liable to forfeiture and any books, documents or articles which may reasonably be believed to have a bearing on the case.
(2)
The senior authorised officer mentioned in subsection (1) may if it is necessary to do so —
break open any outer or inner door of the dwelling house, shop or other building or place and enter thereinto;
forcibly enter the place and every part thereof;
remove by force any obstruction to any entry, search, seizure and removal that he or she is empowered to effect; and
detain every person found in the place until the place has been searched.