Power to issue warrant of arrest etc. or for the search

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Chapter V Chapter V

Statutory text

(1) Any magistrate of the first class or an officer of the Excise Department not below the rank of Superintendent of Excise, as case may be, may issue warrant of arrest of any person whom he has reason to believe to have committed an offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder or for the search, whether by day or by night, of any buildings, vessels or places in which he has reason to believe that any liquor, material, utensil, implement or apparatus, in respect of which an offence punishable under this Act has been committed, is kept or concealed.
(2) The Officer to whom a search warrant under sub-section
(1) is addressed shall have all the powers of an Officer under section 51.

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