Section 160. General Provisions of an Inspection

(6) An inspection of automated data processing system (a part thereof) shall not be usually performed on site, but such system (a part thereof) shall be remove, ensuring retaining of data completeness in unmodified condition.

Section 179. Searches

(1) A search is an investigative action whose content is the search by force of premises, terrain, vehicles, and individual persons for the purpose of finding and removing the object being sought, if there are reasonable grounds to believe that the object being sought is located in the site of the search.

(2) A search shall be conducted for the purpose of finding objects, documents, corpses, or persons being sought that are significant in criminal proceedings.

Section 235. Attachment of Objects and Documents to a Criminal Case and the Storage Thereof

(1) The person directing the proceedings shall register the objects and documents obtained during the course of investigative actions in the list of objects and documents in the criminal case.

(2) The objects and documents obtained during the course of investigative actions shall be returned to the owner or lawful possessor thereof who shall sign for such objects or documents, making a note thereof in the list of objects and documents if one of the following conditions exists:

1) it has been established in subsequent proceedings that the relevant objects and documents do not have the significance of evidence in criminal proceedings; or
2) the necessary investigative actions involving the relevant objects and documents have been performed and the return thereof to the owner or lawful possessor does not harm subsequent criminal proceedings.

(2^1) Actions with the seized property shall occur in accordance with the procedures laid down in Chapter 28 of this Law.

(3) In returning the objects or documents obtained during the course of investigative actions to the owner or lawful possessor after performance of the necessary investigative actions in criminal proceedings, where appropriate, the samples of the necessary objects or copies of documents shall be kept.

(4) If returning of the originals of documents to the owner or lawful possessor thereof may harm subsequent criminal proceedings or there are justified suspicions that, after return, they might be used for the achievement of unlawful objectives, the owner or legal possessor of the documents shall be given copies of the documents and the originals of documents shall be attached to the case materials and stored together with the case throughout the storage period thereof.

(5) The originals of documents permanently stored in the collections of the State Archives shall be removed during the course of investigative actions only for the performance of a technical or handwriting expert-examination on the documents, but in other cases certified copies thereof shall be attached to the case materials.

(6) If the objects or documents obtained during the course of investigative actions have other significance in the criminal proceedings, the person directing the proceedings shall decide on actions involving the relevant objects and documents in conformity with the requirements of this Law. The materials, the circulation of which is prohibited by law, shall not be returned.

(7) The Cabinet shall determine the place and procedures for storage of such material evidence, which may not be returned to the owner or lawful possessor and which may not be stored with other materials of a criminal case.

(8) In transferring the materials of a criminal case to another person directing the proceedings, material evidence may be left in storage in the place for storage of the material evidence determined by the first person directing the proceedings. The person directing the proceedings shall, in pre-trial proceedings until completion of investigation, make a note in the list of objects and documents in the criminal case on the status in the criminal proceedings of the objects and documents obtained during the course of investigative actions.

Section 858. Transfer of an Object to a Foreign Country

An object necessary as material evidence may be transferred to a foreign country upon request of such foreign country. If necessary, the competent authority of Latvia shall request guarantees that the object will be returned.