{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001/section-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001/section-33.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2001/17",
  "legislation_title": "International Criminal Court Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-act-2001",
  "path": "section/33",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Entry, search and seizure",
  "text": "(1) This section applies where the Secretary of State receives from the ICC a request for assistance which appears to him to require the exercise of any of the powers conferred by Part 2 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (c. 60) or, in Northern Ireland, Part III of the Police and Criminal Evidence (Northern Ireland) Order 1989 (S.I. 1989/1341 (N.I. 12)) (powers of entry, search and seizure).\n(2) The Secretary of State may direct a constable to apply for a warrant or order under the relevant Part, which shall apply in relation to an ICC crime as it applies to (in the case of Part 2 of the 1984 Act) to an indictable offence or (in the case of Part III of the 1989 Order) to a serious arrestable offence .",
  "extent": "E+W+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 33(2) substituted (1.1.2006) by Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (c. 15), ss. 111, 178(8), Sch. 7 para. 49(2); S.I. 2005/3495, art. 2(1)(m) (subject to art. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 33(2) repealed (N.I.) (1.3.2007) by The Police and Criminal Evidence (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/288 (N.I. 2)), arts. 1, 15, 41, Sch. 1 para. 36(1), Sch. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/17/section/33",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:59.444920+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."
}