Schedule 10, Part 1, Part 4BA, paragraph 10Z7AA

An authorised officer may seize any item of property if the authorised officer has reasonable grounds for suspecting that the item is a cryptoasset-related item. If an authorised officer is lawfully on any premises, the officer may, for the purpose of— require any information which is stored in any electronic form and accessible from the premises to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is visible and legible, or from which it can readily be produced in a visible and legible form. determining whether any property is a cryptoasset-related item, or enabling or facilitating the seizure under this Part of any terrorist cryptoasset, But sub-paragraph (2) does not authorise an authorised officer to require a person to produce privileged information. In this paragraph “privileged information” means information which a person would be entitled to refuse to provide— in England and Wales and Northern Ireland, on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the High Court; in Scotland, on grounds of confidentiality of communications in proceedings in the Court of Session. Where an authorised officer has seized a cryptoasset-related item under sub-paragraph (1), the officer may use any information obtained from the item for the purpose of— identifying or gaining access to a crypto wallet, and by doing so, enabling or facilitating the seizure under this Part of any cryptoassets.

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Source: legislation.gov.uk · retrieved 2026-09-04