Section 20: Extension of powers of seizure to computerised information.

Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 · 1984 c. 60View on legislation.gov.uk

Part II: Powers of Entry, Search and Seizure

Every power of seizure which is conferred by an enactment to which this section applies on a constable who has entered premises in the exercise of a power conferred by an enactment shall be construed as including a power to require any information stored in any electronic form contained in a computer and accessible from the premises to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form.

This section applies—

to any enactment contained in an Act passed before this Act;
to sections 8 and 18 above;
to paragraph 13 of Schedule 1 to this Act; and
to any enactment contained in an Act passed after this Act.

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