Modification of Article 20 of the 1989 Order (entry and search after arrest)

8.—(1) Article 20 of the 1989 Order (entry and search after arrest)(1) is modified as follows.

(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Article, an officer of Revenue and Customs may enter and search any premises occupied or controlled by a person who is under arrest for any relevant indictable offence if he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is on the premises evidence, other than items subject to legal privilege, that relates—

(a) to that offence; or

(b) to some other indictable offence which is connected with or similar to that offence .”.

(1)

Article 20 of the1989 Order was amended by Article 9 of, and paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to, the Criminal Justice (Northern Ireland) Order 2004 (S.I 2004/1500 (N.I. 9)).