Appointment of Inspectors and their powers

(1) The Administrator or any authority or officer empowered by them may, by notification, appoint one or more persons to be Inspectors for the purposes of this Act and specify in such notification the local limits of their jurisdiction.

(2) Every Inspector shall be deemed to be a public servant within the meaning of section 21 of the Indian Penal Code (Central Act XLV of 1860).

(3) (a) A Magistrate of the first-class may, on receiving a report from an Inspector or from any Police Officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector that --- (i) any person carries on business as a pawnbroker without a licence at any place within the jurisdiction of such Magistrate, or (ii) any pawnbroker carries on business in contravention of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder or the conditions of the licence granted under this Act, at any place within the jurisdiction of such Magistrate, issue warrant empowering the Inspector or, as the case may be, such Police Officer to enter such place with such assistants as he considers necessary and inspect the books, accounts, records, files, documents, sales, vaults and pledges in such premises. On receiving such warrant, the Inspector or the Police Officer may enter the place and inspect the books, accounts, records, files, documents, safes, vaults and pledges in such premises and may take to his office for further investigation such books, accounts, records, files and documents as he considers necessary:

Provided that if the Inspector or the police officer removes from the premises any books, accounts, records, files and documents, he shall give to the