Singapore legislation
Clause 22
Clause 22
Search warrants
(1)
Whenever it appears to a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace upon information and after such inquiry as he 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 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 referred to 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 such entry, search, seizure and removal as he is empowered to effect; and
detain every person found in the place until the place has been searched.