Hong Kong Ordinances

INDEPENDENT COMMISSION AGAINST CORRUPTION ORDINANCE - SECT 10C

Power of search and seizure

(1) An officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner may-

   (a)  search any person if he reasonably suspects that such person is guilty
        of any of the offences referred to in section 10;

   (b)  search the premises or place in which any person was arrested under
        section 10, or the premises or place in which a person who evades
        arrest therein under section 10 was to be arrested, for evidence of
        any of the offences referred to in that section;

   (c)  seize and detain anything which such officer has reason to believe to
        be or to contain evidence of any of the offences referred to in
        section 10;

   (d)  (Repealed 45 of 1992 s. 2)

(1A) (Repealed 45 of 1992 s. 2)

(2) A person shall not be searched under subsection (1) except by a person of
the same sex.

(3) The powers conferred by subsection (1) shall not derogate from the power
conferred on any officer by section 17 of the Prevention of  Bribery Ordinance
( Cap 201) or a warrant issued thereunder. (Added 14 of 1976 s. 2)