Section 14: Search warrants and medical examination

14. Search warrants and medical examination (1) Where, in a case of urgency, communication with a Magistrate would cause delay that would defeat the ends of justice, a police officer, not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent, may— (a) on sworn information that a person has unlawfully in his possession any dangerous drug, any property obtained by means of an offence, or any article used or likely to be used in the commission of an offence, issue a warrant to search for the dangerous drug, property or article; or (b) call upon a Government medical officer, or other medical practitioner, to make such examination of the person of an alleged offender as the circumstances of the case require. (2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a police officer, not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent, may administer oaths. (3) A police officer who acts under subsection (1) shall— (a) report to the Commissioner the circumstances in which he issued a search warrant, or asked for the medical examination of an alleged offender, and the result of the search or examination; and (b) forward to the appropriate District Court within the shortest possible delay the warrant endorsed with the result of the search. [S. 14 amended by Act 3 of 1987.]