Part 4: Police Powers Chapter 5: Maritime Enforcement: English and Welsh Offences Section 89: Power to search and obtain information
This section provides a law enforcement officer with the power to search a ship, and anyone or anything found on the ship. This power may be exercised when the officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that there is evidence relating to an offence under the law of England and Wales (other than items subject to legal privilege) on a ship upon which the maritime enforcement powers are exercisable. The power extends to requiring a person found on the ship to provide information about him or herself or about anything found on the ship.
	This power is restricted to a search only for evidence relating to an offence under the law of England or Wales.
	Subsection (8) provides that the powers to search anyone or anything on the ship or to require a person on the ship to provide information may be exercised on the ship or elsewhere. 'Elsewhere' is included to cover circumstances where persons leave the ship or where items which could amount to evidence relating to an offence under the law of England and Wales are thrown overboard.