Search warrants may be issued where there are reasonable grounds for believing that the apparatus is kept in contravention of the legislation.\u00a0 They may authorise a member of An Garda Siochana or an officer of the authority to search and enter premises.<\/p>\n
Officers may retain things seized that they believe are evidence of a suspected offence.\u00a0 The property may be disposed of under the Police Property Act provided that if its release would involve a further contravention of legislation, it may be retained as though the appropriate owner could not be traced.<\/p>\n
There are provisions for search warrants and general powers of search and seizure in respect of equipment. Authorised officers of the Commissions have powers to enforce the legislation.\u00a0 They may enter any premises at reasonable times where any activity in connection with electronic communication services and associated services is being undertaken.<\/p>\n
They may require the production of books and records, including electronic records.\u00a0 They may secure the same for later inspection. They may remove books, records etc.\u00a0 They may require the person to co-operate with them, including working and use of electronic sources for the re-production of data etc.<\/p>\n
It is an offence to interfere with or impede an authorised officer in the performance of his or her functions.<\/p>\n\n
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Wireless Telegraphy Offences A person may not send or attempt to send by wireless telegraphy from the state or any ship in the territorial waters of the State or ship registered within the State indecent, obscene, or offensive communications, communications subversive to public order, false and misleading signals of distress, false and misleading messages to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31351,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19326\/revisions\/31351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}