[96A Entry and examination of home address]
Sexual Offences Act 2003 (2003 c 42) | Legislation

[96A  Entry and examination of home address]

[Police powers of entry to and examination of relevant offender's home address

(1)     A sheriff may, if satisfied on the application of a senior police officer . . . as to the matters mentioned in subsection (2), grant a warrant authorising any constable of the [Police Service of Scotland] to enter premises in the sheriffdom (if necessary using reasonable force) and to examine and search them, and the things in them, for the purpose mentioned in subsection (3).

(2)     Those matters are—

(a)     that the premises are either—

(i)     premises whose address has been notified by a relevant offender as his home address in his most recent notification of a home address under this Part; or

(ii)     premises whose address

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