of the Commission of the rank of Superintendent or above may sell or cause to be sold the property and shall hold the proceeds of the sale, after deducting therefrom the costs and expenses of the maintenance and sale of the property, to abide the result of any proceedings under this Act.
Investigation of share, purchase account, etc.
35. (1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law or any rule of law, the Public Prosecutor or an officer of the Commission of the rank of Commissioner or above as authorized by the Public Prosecutor, if he is satisfied that it is necessary for the purpose of any investigation into an offence under this Act, may authorize in writing an officer of the Commission to exercise in relation to any bank specified in the authorization all the powers of investigation set out in subsection (2).
(2) An officer of the Commission authorized under subsection (1) may, in relation to the bank in respect of which he is so authorized—
- (a) inspect and take copies of any banker’s book, bank account or any document belonging to or in the possession, custody or control of the bank;
- (b) inspect and take copies of any share account, purchase account, expense account or any other account of any person kept in the bank;
- (c) inspect the contents of any safe deposit box in the bank; or
- (d) request for any other information related to any document, account or article referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c).
(3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2), an officer of the Commission authorized under subsection (1) may take possession of any book, document, account, title, securities or cash to which he has access under that subsection where in his opinion—
- (a) the inspection of them, the copying of them, or the taking of extracts from them, cannot reasonably be undertaken without taking possession of them;
