Section 53 provides powers for the police to enter and search school premises or further education premises or any person on them in relation to the offence of threatening with a corrosive substance. It also provides powers for police to seize and retain a substance which a constable has reasonable grounds for suspecting is a corrosive substance.
	This section forms part of the law of England and Wales.
Part 5: Threatening with offensive weapons Section 53: Search for corrosive substance on school or further education premises