Administration of Criminal Justice Act 2015

Section 145 - Discharge of suspected person

Where the occupier of any building or the person in whose possession a thing named in a search warrant is found and is brought before a court or Justice of the Peace and a complaint is not made that he has committed an offence, the court or Justice of the Peace shall immediately discharge him.

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