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OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT 1911 - SECT 9

Search warrants.

9.(1) If a justice of the peace is satisfied by information on oath that there
is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Act has been or
is about to be committed, he may grant a search warrant authorising any
constable named therein to enter at any time any premises or place named in
the warrant, if necessary, by force, and to search the premises or place and
every person found therein, and to seize any sketch, plan, model, article,
note, or document, or anything of a like nature or anything which is evidence
of an offence under this Act having been or being about to be committed, which
he may find on the premises or place or on any such person, and with regard to
or in connection with which he has reasonable ground for suspecting that an
offence under this Act has been or is about to be committed.

(2) Where it appears to a superintendent of police that the case is one of
great emergency and that in the interest of the State immediate action is
necessary, he may by a written order under his hand give to any constable the
like authority as may be given by the warrant of a justice under this section.

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