Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 355

355. The Police may organise a road check where there are reasonable grounds for believing t hat a check on vehicles in or passing through a lo cality may lead to - (a) the arrest of a person who has committed or is reasonably suspected of having committed or of being about to commit a serious crime or (b) the discovery of anything the possession of which is prohibited or restricted b y law or which is connected in any way whatsoever with the commission of a serious crime or which is evidence of any such crime; or (c) the arrest of any person whose arrest has been ordered by a court or any other lawful authority or who is otherwise unlawfully at large; or (d) the ascertainment that a person is not abiding by a condition lawfully imposed on him by a court; or (e) the ascertainment of violations of any law regarding motor vehicles or tr affic regulation; or (f) the arrest, or ascertain ment of whereabouts, of a person in respect of whom an alert has been entered in the Schengen Information System; or (g) the discovery of any property in respect of which an alert has been entered in the Schengen Information System; or (h) the detection of persons falling within the scope of Article 32(1)(c), (d) and (e) of Regulation (EU) 2018/ 1862 establishing the Schengen Information System: CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 215 Provided that for the purposes of this article "serious crime" means any crime liable to the punishment of imprisonment. Exercise of road check. Added by: III.2002.74. Amended by: II.2026.21.