Section 50

for the purpose of ascertaining whether any offence under this Act has been committed, inspect any goods, document, material, article or thing, and enter any premises other than premises used only for dwelling;

if the Assistant Controller has reasonable cause to believe that an offence under this Act has been committed, seize and detain any goods, document, material, article or thing for the purpose of ascertaining, by testing or otherwise, whether the offence has been committed;

seize and detain any goods, document, material, article or thing which the Assistant Controller has reason to believe may be required as evidence in any proceedings for an offence under this Act; and

for the purpose of exercising his powers under this subsection, seize any goods, document, material, article or thing, but only if and to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in order to secure that the provisions of this Act and of any order made under this Act are duly observed, require any person having authority to do so to break open any container or open any vending machine, and if that person does not comply with the requirement, the Assistant Controller may do so himself.

An Assistant Controller seizing any goods, document, material, article or thing in the exercise of his powers under this section shall inform the person from whom the goods, document, material, article or thing is seized, and in the case of goods seized from a vending machine, the person whose name and address are stated on the machine as being the proprietor, or if no name and address are so stated, the occupier of the premises on which the machine stands or to which it is affixed.

Where the goods, document, material, article or thing seized by the Assistant Controller in the exercise of his powers under this section are by reason of its nature, size or amount not practical to be removed from where the goods, document, material, article or thing is found, he may by any means seal

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such goods, document, material, article or thing in the premises or container in which it is found and it shall be an offence for any person without lawful authority to break, tamper with or damage such seal or to remove such goods, document, material, article or thing or to attempt to do so.

Magistrate may issue search warrant