Strategic Goods (Control) Act 2002 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 4 · Enforcement
21. Power of arrest
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arrest without warrant any person whom he or she has reason to believe to be committing or to have committed an offence under section 5 or 6; and
search the person arrested and seize anything which he or she reasonably considers to be evidence of the commission of the offence.
No woman or girl may be searched except by a woman.
Where the authorised officer or senior authorised officer makes an arrest without warrant, he or she must, without unnecessary delay, produce the person arrested before a Magistrate.
The authorised officer or senior authorised officer must not detain in custody a person arrested without a warrant for a longer period than is reasonable under the circumstances of the case.
Such period must not exceed 48 hours, excluding the time for any necessary journey to the Magistrate’s Court.