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NO. 26 OF 2018
Amendment of Registration of Criminals Act
58. Part II of the First Schedule to the Registration of Criminals Act (Cap. 268, 1985 Ed.) is amended by inserting, immediately after the item relating to “Public Order (Preservation) Act”, the following item:
| "Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act 2018 | The whole." |
Amendment of Road Vehicles (Special Powers) Act
59. The Road Vehicles (Special Powers) Act (Cap. 277, 2007 Ed.) is amended—
- (a) by deleting the words "has reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is to be found in the vehicle any article in respect of which a scheduled offence has been or is being committed, he may search the vehicle and any person found in such vehicle" in section 3(2) and substituting the words "may search the vehicle and any person found in such vehicle if the police officer suspects on reasonable grounds that there is to be found in the vehicle any article in respect of which a scheduled offence has been or is being committed, or that the vehicle, or a person in, on or near the vehicle, is the target of a special authorisation given under the Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act 2018 or that the vehicle is in an area that is the target of the special authorisation";
- (b) by inserting, immediately after subsection (1) of section 5, the following subsection:
- "(1A) When a special authorisation under the Public Order and Safety (Special Powers) Act 2018 has effect and it is reasonably suspected by a police officer that a road vehicle, or a person in, on or near the vehicle, is the target of the special authorisation or that any dangerous article, offensive weapon or subversive document (within the meaning of that Act) may be found in any road vehicle or on any person found in, on or near the vehicle—
