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(c) seize and detain anything found in such premises or place or vessel which appears to him to be or to contain evidence of an offence under this Part.
(3) No person shall be searched under subsection (2) except by a person of the same sex.
(Added, 1 of 1978, s. 6)
153. (1) Without prejudice to section 152, if a police officer reasonably suspects that any premises, vessel or place is being kept as a vice establishment, he may seize and detain anything found in such premises, vessel or place, or on any person found in such premises, vessel or place, which appears to him to have been used in or for or in connexion with the commission of an offence under section 139.
(2) If, in any proceedings for an offence under section 139, 143 or 144 or otherwise on application by or on behalf of the Commissioner of Police, a court or magistrate is satisfied that anything in the possession of the court or magistrate or the police, not being immovable property, has been used in or for or in connexion with the commission of an offence under section 139, the court or magistrate may order that it be forfeited to the Crown, whether or not any person has been convicted of an offence under section 139.
(Added, 1 of 1978, s. 6)
Restrictions on evidence and on publishing details regarding identity
154. (1) If at a trial before the High Court any person is for the time being charged with a rape offence or indecent assault to which he pleads not guilty (whether or not at the trial he, or any other person, is for the time being charged with an offence which is not a rape offence or indecent assault), then, except with the leave of the judge, no evidence and no question in cross-examination shall be adduced or asked at the trial, by or on behalf of any defendant at the trial, about any sexual experience of a complainant with a person other than that defendant. (Amended, 32 of 1979, s. 2)
(2) The judge shall not give leave in pursuance of subsection (1) for any evidence or question except on an application made to him in the absence of the jury by or on behalf of a defendant; and on such an application the judge shall give leave if and only if he is satisfied that it would be unfair to that defendant to refuse to allow the evidence to be adduced or the question to be asked.
(3) In subsection (1) "complainant" means a woman upon whom, in a charge for a rape offence or indecent assault to which the trial in question relates, it is alleged that rape or indecent assault was committed, attempted or proposed. (Amended, 32 of 1979, s. 2)
(4) Nothing in this section authorizes evidence to be adduced or a question to be asked which cannot be adduced or asked apart from this section.
(Added, 25 of 1978, s. 4)
Seizure and forfeiture in respect of vice establishment.
Restrictions on evidence at trials for rape etc. Ref. 1976 c. 82, s. 2.