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Section 33, THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965
RepealedTHE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACTS, 1965, Sierra Leone
(1) A constable may, without warrant, enter by force if necessary any premises within a Diamond Protection Areafor the purpose of searching for any person whom he has reasonable grounds to believe is a stranger:
Provided that the authority given by this section shall not entitle him to search for any other person or thing unless he
is lawfully so entitled apart from this section.
(2) Every constable acting under this section shall before entering any premises by virtue of subsection (1) deliver or
offer to deliver to the owner or occupier a statement in writing signed by him to the effect that he is entering the
premises because he has reasonable grounds to believe that there is a stranger thereon.
(3) For the purposes of this section the expressions "Diamond Protection Area" and "stranger" and shall bear the
meanings assigned to them in section 2 of the Diamond Industry Protection Act.
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