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NO. 34 OF 2014


(2) A police officer or an authorised officer who enters any premises under subsection (1) may do all or any of the following:

(a) search the premises and take possession of any thing found in there and reasonably believed to be connected to the commission of the offence or the contravention;
(b) require the production of records and documents relating or reasonably believed to relate to the commission of the offence or the contravention, wherever and by whomsoever kept, and take and retain extracts or copies of those records and documents;
(c) compel any person who is able to operate any equipment at the premises to do so for the purpose of enabling the police officer or authorised officer to ascertain whether the equipment, or a disk, tape or other storage device that can be used or associated with the equipment, contains information that is relevant to the investigation;
(d) if such information is found in exercise of the power in paragraph (c)—
(i) produce, or compel the production of, the information in documentary form, and keep or copy the documents so produced; or
(ii) transfer, or compel the transfer of, the information to a disk, tape or other storage device, and remove it from the premises.

(3) Where a police officer or an authorised officer has reasonable grounds to suspect that there is, on any premises (including premises other than those referred to in subsection (1)), any record, document or information the production of which has been required under subsection (2) or section 33(1)(b), and—

(a) which has not been produced in compliance with that requirement; or