Section 4: Seizure of property
14.This section creates the power of seizure exercisable by a park constable.
15.Subsection (1) requires that a park constable must reasonably suspect that a person has committed a park trading offence before the power of seizure is exercisable. Subsection (2) adds that a constable may only exercise such a power in the park in which he has jurisdiction.
16.If the above conditions are met, subsection (1) gives a park constable the discretion to seize anything which the person has in his possession or under his control and which the constable reasonably believes to have been used in the commission of a park trading offence.
17.The scope of the seizure power only extends to things of a non-perishable nature.
