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  "legislation_title": "Police (Northern Ireland) Act 2003",
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  "text": "(1) Where a designation applies this paragraph to a person, he has the powers of a constable under Article 55 of the 1989 Order (non-intimate searches of detained persons)—\n(a) to carry out a search under that Article of any person at a police station or of any other person otherwise in police detention;\n(b) to seize or retain, or cause to be seized or retained, anything found on such a search.\n(2) Paragraphs (9) and (12) of Article 55 of that Order (restrictions on power to seize clothes and personal effects and searches to be carried out by a member of the same sex) apply to the exercise by the designated person of any power exercisable by virtue of this paragraph as they apply to the exercise of the power in question by a constable.",
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