Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 353

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353. Except in urgent cases and when a person is apprehended in flagrante delicto nothing in this Title authorises the search of a person by a police officer of the opposite sex, or that a searc h be conducted by a poli ce officer not in uniform unless clearly identified by the production of a police identity card. Report on search. Substituted by: III.2002.74.

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