# Serious Crime Act 2007, Section 41: Powers of law enforcement officers to retain documents


(1) A law enforcement officer—
(a) may take and retain copies of, or extracts from, any document produced to a law enforcement officer in pursuance of a serious crime prevention order; and
(b) may retain any document so produced for as long as he considers that it is necessary to retain it (rather than any copy of it) for the purposes for which the document was obtained.
(2) A law enforcement officer may retain any document produced to a law enforcement officer in pursuance of a serious crime prevention order until the conclusion of any legal proceedings if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the document—
(a) may have to be produced for the purposes of those proceedings; and
(b) might be unavailable unless retained.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2007/27/section/41 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/serious-crime-act-2007/section-41
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