PART IIIPOWERS OF ENTRY, SEARCH AND SEIZURE

Search warrants

Special provisions as to access11.

(1)

A constable may obtain access to excluded material or special procedure material for the purposes of a criminal investigation by making an application under Schedule 1 and in accordance with that Schedule.

(2)

Subject to paragraph (3), any statutory provision passed or made before the making of this Order under which a search of premises for the purposes of a criminal investigation could be authorised by the issue of a warrant to a constable shall cease to have effect so far as it relates to the authorisation of searches—

(a)

for items subject to legal privilege; or

(b)

for excluded material; or

(c)

for special procedure material consisting of documents or records other than documents.

(3)

Nothing in this Article or in Schedule 1 shall affect the powers conferred byF1 sections 37 and 38 of, and Schedules 5 and 6 to, the Terrorism Act 2000.