[The Search and Search Warrants Committee was an amalgam of the Public and Administrative Law Reform Committee together with the Criminal Law Reform Committee and after the Standing Law Reform Committees were abolished this body continued to work in association with the Legislation Advisory Committee.]

1 Terms of reference and acknowledgements

2 Summary of recommendations

3 Preface

4 General introduction

5 Search where there is a belief that an offence has been committed - the warrant requirement

6 Intrusions where a belief that an offence has been committed is not necessary

7 The power of search incidental to arrest

8 Consent searches

9 property seized

10 Compensation for damage

11 Mode of implementation - a powers of entry act

Appendix 1 - Powers and practice under the Customs Acts

Appendix 2 - Section 57A of the Police Act 1958

Appendix 3 - Section 199 of the Summary Proceedings Act 1957

Appendix 4 - Principles formulated by the Public and Administrative Law Reform Committee in its Seventeenth Report on Statutory Powers of Entry

Appendix 5 - Existing powers of intrusion