{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-scotland-act-2001/section-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-scotland-act-2001/section-16.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/13",
  "legislation_title": "International Criminal Court (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/international-criminal-court-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "section/16",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Entry, search and seizure",
  "text": "(1) Where the Scottish Ministers receive from the ICC a request for assistance which appears to them to require the exercise of a power of entry, search or seizure, they may direct the procurator fiscal to apply to the sheriff for a warrant authorising entry, search and seizure by any constable.\n(2) The sheriff shall have the same power in relation to an application for a warrant under subsection (1) above as the sheriff has in relation to an application for a warrant at common law.\n(3) A warrant granted by virtue of this section may authorise such person as the sheriff considers appropriate to accompany a constable acting in exercise of the warrant; and any such person shall be named in the warrant.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/13/section/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:12.122857+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."
}