56Grant of warrants for execution by constables and police members of SCDEA
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(1)A sheriff or justice of the peace does not lack power or jurisdiction to grant a warrant for execution by a person mentioned in subsection (2) solely because the person is not a constable of a police force for a police area lying wholly or partly in the sheriff’s or justice’s sheriffdom.
(2)The persons referred to in subsection (1) are—
(a)a constable,
(b) police member of the Scottish Crime and Drug Enforcement Agency.