SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Munitions and Transmitters: Search and Seizure

Stopping and searching personsF5: general

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Amendments (Textual)
F5

Words in Sch. 3 para. 4 cross-heading inserted (10.7.2012) by Protection of Freedoms Act 2012 (c. 9), s. 120, Sch. 6 para. 1(5) (with s. 97); S.I. 2012/1205, art. 4(h)

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1

F2A member of Her Majesty's forces who is on duty may—

a

stop a person in a public place, and

b

search him for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has munitions unlawfully with him or wireless apparatus with him.

2

An F3member of Her Majesty's forces who is on duty may search a person—

a

who is not in a public place, and

b

whom the F1member concerned reasonably suspects to have munitions unlawfully with him or to have wireless apparatus with him.

3

A member of Her Majesty's forces may search a person entering or found in a dwelling entered under paragraph 2.

F44

A constable may search a person (whether or not that person is in a public place) whom the constable reasonably suspects to have munitions unlawfully with him or to have wireless apparatus with him.