Police Powers and Responsibilities Act 2000

This section applies to the occupier of a dwelling if the occupier can not continue to live in the dwelling—

while a missing person scene is established because of a direction given at the scene; or

because of damage caused to the dwelling in the exercise of missing person powers.

A police officer must inform the occupier of the occupier’s right to suitable alternative accommodation for the time the occupier can not live in the dwelling.

The commissioner must arrange suitable alternative accommodation for the occupier for the time the occupier can not live in the dwelling, if requested to do so by the occupier.

The accommodation must, if reasonably practicable, be in the same locality as, and of at least a similar standard to, the dwelling.

This section does not apply to an occupier who is detained in lawful custody.