Surrender and seizure of articles
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4(1)If a court security officer acting in the execution of his duty reasonably believes that an article in the possession of a person who is in, or seeking to enter, a relevant building ought to be surrendered on any of the grounds given in sub-paragraph (3), he may ask the person to surrender the article.
(2)If the person refuses to surrender the article, the officer may seize it.
(3)The grounds are that the article—
(a)may jeopardise the maintenance of order in the building,
(b)may put the safety of any person in the building at risk, or
(c)may be evidence of, or in relation to, an offence.