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Paragraph 6 Confiscation of tobacco etc.

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

An accredited person whose accreditation specifies that this paragraph applies to him shall, in, on or in the vicinity of policed premises, have—

(a)

the power to seize anything that a constable in uniform has a duty to seize under subsection (3) of section 7 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933f1 (seizure of tobacco etc. from young persons); and

(b)

the power to dispose of anything that a constable may dispose of under that subsection,

and the power to dispose of anything shall be a power to dispose of it in such manner as the relevant employer of the accredited person may direct.

(2)

In this paragraph “relevant employer”, in relation to an accredited person, means the person with whom the chief constable has entered into arrangements under regulation 7(1).

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Footnotes

f1

1933 c. 12.