- (b) stop and detain the vehicle for the purposes of entering and searching it.
(3) Where—
- (a) a police or customs officer has stopped a vehicle under this section, and
- (b) the officer considers that it would be impracticable to search the vehicle in the place where it has stopped,
the officer may require the vehicle to be taken to such place as the officer directs to enable the vehicle to be searched.
(4) A police or customs officer may require—
- (a) any person travelling in a vehicle, or
- (b) the registered keeper of a vehicle,
to afford such facilities and assistance with respect to matters under that person’s control as the officer considers would facilitate the exercise of any power conferred by this section.
(5) The powers conferred by this section may be exercised in any place to which the officer lawfully has access (whether or not it is a place to which the public has access).
(6) In this section “vehicle” does not include any vessel or aircraft.
(7) For provision conferring additional powers to enter and search vehicles, see section 39.
38Power to board and search vessels or aircraft
(1) This section applies where—
- (a) a police or customs officer has reasonable grounds to believe that there is relevant evidence in or on any vessel or aircraft, and
- (b) the vessel or aircraft is not a dwelling.
(2) The officer may at any time—
- (a) board the vessel or aircraft, and
- (b) search it for relevant evidence.
(3) For the purposes of exercising the power conferred by subsection (2), the officer may require a vessel or aircraft—
- (a) to stop, or
- (b) to do anything else that will facilitate the boarding of that or any other vessel or aircraft.
(4) A police or customs officer who has boarded a vessel or aircraft may, for the purposes of disembarking from the vessel or aircraft, require that or any other vessel or aircraft—
- (a) to stop, or
- (b) to do anything else that will enable the officer to disembark from the vessel or aircraft.
(5) A police or customs officer may require any person on board a vessel or aircraft to afford such facilities and assistance with respect to matters under that person’s control as the officer considers would facilitate the exercise of any power conferred by this section.
