United Nations Sanctions (Afghanistan) Regulation 2012
Gazette Number:
L.N. 43 of 2012
Section:
18
Heading:
Investigation of suspected vehicles
Version Date:
23/03/2012
(1) If an authorized officer has reason to suspect that a vehicle in the HKSAR has been, is being or is about to be used in contravention of section 4(2), the officer may¡X
(a) either alone or accompanied and assisted by any person acting under the officer¡¦s authority, board the vehicle and search it and, for that purpose, use or authorize the use of reasonable force;
(b) request the operator or driver of the vehicle to provide any information relating to the vehicle or any article carried on it, or produce for inspection any article carried on it or any document relating to the vehicle or any article carried on it, that the officer may specify; and
(c) further request, either there and then or on consideration of any information provided or article or document produced in response to a request made under paragraph (b), the operator or driver to take the vehicle and any article carried on it to a place specified by an authorized officer, and to cause the vehicle and the article to remain in that place until the operator or driver is notified by an authorized officer that the vehicle and the article may depart.
(2) A power conferred by this section to request a person to provide any information or produce any article or document for inspection includes a power to¡X
(a) specify whether the information should be provided orally or in writing and in what form; and
(b) specify the time by which, and the place in which, the information should be provided or the article or document should be produced for inspection.