Section 3: Police Search of Premises for Arrest Suspect
3.Search of place entered by person sought to be arrested
(1)If any person acting under a warrant of arrest, or any police officer having authority to arrest, has reason to believe that the person to be arrested has entered into or is within any place, the person residing in or being in charge of that place shall, on demand of the person acting under the warrant or the police officer, allow him or her free ingress to the place and afford all reasonable facilities for a search in it.
(2)If ingress to the place cannot be obtained under subsection (1), it shall be lawful in any case for a person acting under a warrant, and in any case in which a warrant may issue, but cannot be obtained without affording the person to be arrested an opportunity to escape, for a police officer, to enter the place and search in it, and in order to effect an entrance into the place, to break open any outer or inner door or window of any house or place, whether that of the person to be arrested or of any other person, if after notification of his or her authority and purpose, and demand of admittance duly made, he or she cannot otherwise obtain admittance.
Plain English Summary
You must allow a police officer or a person with a warrant to enter your home or property if they believe the person they want to arrest is inside. Th...
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