# Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, Paragraph 19


Conferring, in specified circumstances involving a risk of fire or explosion, power to search a person or any article which a person has with him for the purpose of ascertaining whether he has in his possession any article of a specified kind likely in those circumstances to cause a fire or explosion, and power to seize and dispose of any article of that kind found on such a search.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1974/37/schedule/3/paragraph/19 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/health-and-safety-at-work-etc-act-1974/schedule-3/paragraph-19
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