Power of police officer to enter and search

Power of police officer to enter and search:

1. (1) If a Police Officer not below the rank of a Sub-Inspector has reason to suspect that any house, room, tent, enclosure, vessel, vehicle, or place is used as a common gaming house, he may either himself enter, or by his warrant authorize any officer of police to enter, with such assistance as may be found necessary, by night or by day, and by force if necessary, any such house, room, tent, enclosure, vessel, vehicle, or place, and may take into custody all persons whom he finds therein, whether or not then actually gaming.
2. (2) He may seize or authorize to be seized all instruments of gaming, and all moneys and securities for money, and articles of value, reasonably suspected to have been used or intended to be used for the purpose of gaming, which are found therein.
3. (3) He may search or authorize to be searched all parts of the house, room, tent, enclosure, vessel, vehicle, or place which he shall have so entered, when he shall have reason to believe that any instruments of gaming are concealed therein, and also the persons of those whom he shall have so taken into custody, and may seize and take possession of all such instruments of gaming found upon such search.