the Attorney-General may, in writing, authorize a police officer to apply to a magistrate in the province in which that thing is believed to be located for the search warrant requested by the foreign country. (2) Where a police officer authorized under subsection (1) has reason to believe that the thing to which the request relates is or will be, at a specified time— (a) on a person; or (b) in the clothing that is being worn by a person; or (c) otherwise in a person’s immediate control; the police officer may lay before a magistrate information on oath setting out the grounds for that belief and apply for the issue of a warrant in terms of this section to search the person for th at thing. (3) Where an application is made in terms of subsection (2), the magistrate may, subject to subsection (6), issue a warrant authorizing a police officer— (a) to search the person for the thing; and (b) to seize anything found in the course of the search that the police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, to be relevant to the proceedings or investigation. (4) Where a police officer authorized in terms of subsection (1) has reason to believe that the thing to which the request relates is or will be at a specified time, upon any land, or upon or in any premises, the police officer may— (a) lay before a magistrate information on oath setting out the grounds for that belief; and (b) apply for the issue of a warrant in terms of this section to search the land or premises for that thing. (5) Where an application is made in terms of subsection (4), the magistrate may, subject to subsection (6), issue a warrant authorizing a police officer— (a) to enter upon the land, or upon or into the premises; and (b) to search the land or premises for the thing; and (c) to seize anything found in the course of the search that the police officer believes, on reasonable grounds, to be relevant to the proceedings or investigation. (6) A magistrate shall not issue a warrant in terms of this section unless — (a) the informant or some other person has given to the magistrate, either orally or by affidavit, such further information, if any, as the magistrate may require concerning the grounds on which the issue of the warrant is sought; and (b) the magistrate is satisfied that there are reasonable grounds for issuing the warrant. (7) There shall be stated in a warrant issued in terms of this section— (a) the purpose for which the warrant is issued, including a reference to the nature of the criminal matter in relation to which the search is authorized; and (b) whether the search is authorized at any time of the day or night or during specified hours of the day or night; and (c) a description of the kind of things authorized to be seized; and (d) a day, not being later than one month after the issue of the warrant, on which the warrant ceases to have effect. (8) If in the course of searching under a warrant issued in terms of this section for a thing of a kind specified in the warrant, the police officer finds another thing that the police officer believes on reasonable grounds— (a) to be relevant to the proceedings or investigation in the foreign country or to afford evidence as to the commission of an offence in Zimbabwe; and (b) is likely to be concealed. lost or destroyed if it is not seized; the warrant shall be deemed to authorize the police officer to seize the other thing. (9) Where a police officer finds, as a result of a search in accordance with a warrant issued in terms of this section, a thing which the police officer seizes wholly or partly because he believes on reasonable grounds the thing to be relevant to the proceedings or investigation in the foreign country, the police officer shall deliver the thing into the custody and control of the Commissioner of Police. (10) Where a thing is delivered into the custody and control of the Commissioner of Police in terms of subsection (9), the Commissioner of Police shall arrange for the thing to be ke pt for a period not exceeding one month from the day on which the thing was seized, pending a direction in writing from the Attorney-General as to the manner in which the thing is to be dealt with, which may include a direction that the thing be sent to an authority of a foreign country. (11) A police officer who executes a search warrant issued in terms of subsection (3) or (5) shall, as soon as practicable after the execution of the warrant, give to the person searched, or to the owner or occupier of the land or premises searched, or leave in a prominent position on such land or at such premises, as the case requires, a notice setting out— (a) the name and rank of the police officer; and (b) the name of the magistrate who issued the warrant and the day on which it was issued; and

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