(1)  A police officer or authorised person who has reasonable grounds for believing that a motor vehicle is equipped with a detection device may –

(a) enter and search the motor vehicle; and

(b) doing as little damage as possible in the circumstances, seize any device that appears to the police officer or authorised person to be a detection device; and

(c) cause any device so seized to be tested; and

(d) cause any device so seized to be produced in court as evidence in any proceedings under rule 225 .

Note 1 : Authorised person and police officer are defined in the dictionary.

Note 2 : Rule 225 makes it an offence to drive a vehicle having a detection device.

(2)  If a person is convicted of an offence under rule 225 the detection device to which the offence relates is forfeited to the Crown.

(3)  In this rule,

detection device means –

(a) a device for preventing the effective use of a speed measuring device; or

(b) a device for detecting the use of a speed measuring device.