Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies if a police officer reasonably suspects—

a thing at or about a place, or in the possession of a person at or about a place is evidence of the commission of a part 2 offence; and

the evidence may be concealed or destroyed unless the place is immediately entered and searched.

This section also applies if a police officer reasonably suspects a part 2 offence has been, is being, or may be committed in, on or in relation to a transport vehicle and involves the safety of the vehicle or anyone who may be in or on it.

A police officer may enter the place and exercise search warrant powers, other than power to do something that may cause structural damage to a building, at the place as if they were conferred under a search warrant.