Part 3: Touting, Advertising and Trading Offences Schedule 3 – Further provision about enforcement Conditions for seizure and detention of goods
Paragraph 2(1) provides additional circumstances under which the powers to seize goods or documents under paragraph 28 or 29 of Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 may be used; namely, to stop a relevant offence from occurring, or to prevent it from continuing. Subparagraph (1) also provides for the power of seizure to be used to enable the goods or documents to be used as evidence in proceedings. Subparagraph (2) makes clear that this does not preclude an officer using the power to seize and detain goods as set out in Schedule 5 to the Consumer Rights Act 2015 in relation to any other legislation in relation to which the investigatory powers in Schedule 5 can be used (for example, if in the course of enforcing the trading offence, the officer discovers counterfeit goods that are liable to forfeiture).