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Bare acts > Indecent Representation Of Women (Prohibition) Act, 1986 > Section 5
 
  


 

5. Powers to enter and search.- (1) Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, any Gazetted Officer authorized by the State Government may, within the local limits of the area for which he is so authorized:-

Enter and search at all reasonable times, with such assistance, if any , as he considers necessary, any place in which he has reason to believe that an offence under this Act has been or is being committed;

Seize any advertisement or any book, pamphlet, paper, slide, film, writing, drawing, painting, photograph, representation or figure which he has reason to believe contravenes any of the provisions of this Act;

Examine any record, register, document or any other material object found in any place mentioned in Cl.(a) and seize the same if he has reason to believe that it may furnish evidence of the commission of an offence punishable under this Act.

Provided that no entry under this sub-section shall be made into a private dwelling-house without a warrant:

Provided further that the power of seizure under this sub-section may be exercised in respect of any document, article or thing which contains any such advertisement, including the contents, if any, of such document, article or thing if the advertisement cannot be separated by reason of its being embossed or otherwise from such document, article or thing without affecting the integrity, utility or saleable value thereof.

(2)The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973(2 of 1974), shall, so far as may be, apply to any search or seizure made under the authority of a warrant issued under Sec.94 of the said Code.

(3)where any person seizes anything under Cl.(b) or Cl.(c) of sub section (1), he shall, as soon as may be, inform the nearest Magistrate and take his orders as to the custody thereof.

 

 

 

 

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