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Section 19

Search and seizure without warrant

of Forest Timber Enactment 2015

State EnactmentIn forceProvision 19 of 52
Section 19

If an enforcement officer is satisfied upon information received that he has reasonable cause to believe that by reason of delay in obtaining a search warrant under section 18 the investigation would be adversely affected or evidence of the commission of an offence is likely to be tempered with, removed, damaged or destroyed, the enforcement officer may enter the premises or conveyance and exercise in, upon and in respect of the premises or conveyance all the powers referred to in section 18 in as full and ample manner as if he was authorized to do so by a warrant issued under that section.