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(i) enter and search the premises or place;

(ii) detain any person found in or on the premises or place, during such period as is reasonably required to permit the search to be carried out, where that person might prejudice the purpose of the search if he were not so detained; and

(iii) seize, remove or detain any telecommunications device or other thing found in or on the premises or place that is or that contains, or that appears to him to be or to contain, or to be likely to be or to contain, evidence of the commission of a specified offence.

(2) The Authority or an authorized officer may, in carrying out a search of any premises or place entered under a warrant issued under section 41(1) (power of magistrate to issue search warrant)—

(a) inspect, operate and analyze any telecommunications device or other thing found in or on the premises or place;

(b) require to be given or produced to him any information (including but not limited to passwords) or document or other thing as will enable him to inspect, operate and analyze any telecommunications device or other thing referred to in paragraph (a);

(c) require any information that relates, or that appears to him to relate, or to be likely to relate, to the commission or suspected commission of a specified offence and that is—

(i) contained in a computer in, on or accessible from the premises or place; or

(ii) contained in any other telecommunications device or other thing found in or on the premises or place and that is capable of being retrieved on a computer,

to be produced on a computer in or on the premises or place in a visible and legible form, and examine the information;

(d) require any information described in paragraph (c) to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is either visible and legible or capable of being retrieved on a computer; and

(e) take away the copy so produced under paragraph (d).

(3) The Authority or an authorized officer may—

(a) break into and forcibly enter any premises or place that he is empowered to enter and search under a warrant issued under section 41(1) (power of magistrate to issue search warrant); and

(b) remove by force any person or thing obstructing him in the performance of his functions under this section.