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(1)When any police officer has stopped, searched or detained any vessel, boat, aircraft, vehicle or person under section 7 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act or searched any building, vessel, carriage, box, receptacle or place pursuant to a search warrant issued under section 70 of the Magistrates Courts Act and has seized anything which may reasonably be suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully obtained, and if the person in whose possession that thing was found does not give an account to the satisfaction of the court of how he or she came by it, the person commits a misdemeanour.
(2)For the purposes of subsection (1), a thing shall be deemed to be in the possession of a person if—
(a)when found by a police officer acting under section 7 of the Criminal Procedure Code Act it is on the person of or being carried by the person or is part of his or her goods or luggage on a vessel, boat, aircraft or vehicle; or
(b)when found by a police officer acting pursuant to a search warrant issued under section 70 of the Magistrates Courts Act it is in a part of a building in which the person resides, or which he or she occupies or is in a vessel, carriage, box, receptacle or place under his or her control.
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