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BROADCASTING ORDINANCE :(a) require a licensee or a person whom such authorized person reasonably believes to be employed or engaged in connection with the relevant business of a person to whom this section applies to produce for examination any data, book, document or record which relates to such business and which is in the possession or under the control of the licensee or person, as the case may be;
 * (b) examine and, if he thinks fit, to take copies of any data, book, document or record produced under paragraph (a) or any entry therein;
 * (c) remove the data, book, document or record referred to in paragraph (a) or the copies referred to in paragraph (b) for examination by him and the Broadcasting Authority; and
 * (d) require a licensee or a person whom such authorized person reasonably believes to be employed or engaged in connection with the relevant business of a person to which this section applies to give the authorized person and the Broadcasting Authority any explanation or further particulars as specified by the authorized person in respect of any data, book, document or record produced under paragraph (a).

(2) Where any information or matter relevant to an investigation under this section is recorded otherwise than in a readily legible or comprehensible form, the powers conferred by subsection (1) to require the production of any data, book, document or record shall include power to require the production or reproduction of the data, book, document or record of a relevant part of it in a readily legible and comprehensible form.

(3) A magistrate may, if satisfied by information on oath laid by the chairman or vice chairman of the Broadcasting Authority or by the principal executive officer within the meaning of the Broadcasting Authority Ordinance (Cap. 391)—
 * (a) that it is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Broadcasting Authority as referred to in subsection (1) that entry be obtained to any premises which the chairman, vice chairman or principal executive officer has reasonable grounds for believing is used or occupied by a person to whom this section applies for the purposes of keeping, storing or using any data, book, document or record which relates to the relevant business of the person to whom this section applies; and
 * (b) that permission to enter such premises has been refused or that entry is likely to be refused,

issue a warrant authorizing a person authorized under subsection (1) to enter such premises, and such person—
 * (i) may exercise therein the powers specified in subsection (1); and