Proceeds of Crime Act 2002
If electronic equipment is moved to another place under section 244 , the * executing officer or a * person assisting may operate the equipment to: (a) access * data (including data held at another place); or (b) access * account-based data.
245A(2)
If the * executing officer or * person assisting suspects on reasonable grounds that any * data accessed by operating the electronic equipment constitutes * tainted property or * evidential material, or suggests the existence of a * digital asset that may be seized under a * search warrant, that person may copy any or all of the data accessed by operating the electronic equipment to a disk, tape or other associated device.
245A(3)
The * executing officer or a * person assisting may do the following things if that person finds that any * tainted property or * evidential material is accessible using the equipment, or finds a thing (whether or not held on the equipment) that suggests the existence of a * digital asset that may be * seized under a * search warrant: (a) seize the equipment and any disk, tape or other similar device; (b) if the material or thing can be put in documentary form - put the material or thing in that form and seize the documents so produced.
245A(4)
The * executing officer or a * person assisting may seize equipment under paragraph (3)(a) only if: (a) it is not practicable to copy the * data as mentioned in subsection (2) or to put the material or thing in documentary form as mentioned in paragraph (3)(b) ; or (b) possession of the equipment, by the person referred to in paragraph 244(1)(b) or (c) (as the case requires), could constitute an offence.
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