(1) Subject to any decision of the court under section 145, and to the conditions specified in subsections (2), (3) and (4), an infringing copy of a work which is found exposed or otherwise immediately available for sale or hire, and in respect of which the copyright owner would be entitled to apply for an order under section 36 may be seized and detained by him or her or a person authorised by him or her.
(2) Before anything is seized under this section notice of the time and place of the proposed seizure shall be given to the nearest police station.
(3) At the time that anything is seized under this section there shall be left at the place where it was seized a notice in the prescribed form containing the prescribed particulars as to the person by whom or on whose authority the seizure is made and the grounds on which it is made.
(4) In this section “premises” includes land, buildings, fixed or moveable structures, vehicles, vessels and aircraft.