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 by section 17 of, and Schedule 7 to, the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act 198914.