{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-northern-ireland-order-1988/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1988/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Crossbows (Northern Ireland) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crossbows-northern-ireland-order-1988",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Powers of search and seizure etc.",
  "text": "(1) If a constable suspects with reasonable cause that a person is committing or has committed an offence under Article 5, the constable may—\n(a) search that person for a crossbow or part of a crossbow;\n(b) search any vehicle, or anything in or on a vehicle, in or on which the constable suspects with reasonable cause there is a crossbow, or part of a crossbow, connected with the offence.\n(2) A constable may detain a person or vehicle for the purpose of a search under paragraph (1).\n(3) A constable may seize and retain for the purpose of proceedings for an offence under this Order anything discovered by him in the course of a search under paragraph (1) which appears to him to be a crossbow or part of a crossbow.\n(4) For the purpose of exercising the powers conferred by this Article a constable may enter any land other than a dwelling‐house.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1988/794/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:47:44.014930+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}