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Safeguarding National Security Ordinance

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(a) to enter and search the place;

(b) to seize, remove or impound anything that appears to that officer or that other person to be specified evidence;

(c) to remove by force a person or thing obstructing that officer or that other person from exercising a power conferred on that officer or that other person by this section;

(d) to detain a person found in the place until the place has been searched.

(3) If—

(a) a police officer of the rank of Superintendent or above has reasonable grounds to suspect that any specified evidence is in a place; and

(b) the delay necessary to obtain a warrant is likely to result in the loss or destruction of evidence or for any other reason it would not be reasonably practicable to obtain such a warrant,

the police officer (or a police officer authorized by that officer) may exercise any of the powers referred to in subsection (2) in respect of the place without a warrant issued under subsection (1).

(4) In this section—

place (地方) means any place, and includes—

(a) any vehicle, vessel, aircraft, hovercraft or other conveyance;

(b) any tent or structure (whether or not movable or offshore); and

(c) any electronic equipment;