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BROADCASTING ORDINANCE :(ii) copy, seize, remove and detain any data, book, document or record therein or any copy thereof which the authorized person has reasonable grounds for believing will afford evidence likely to assist the Broadcasting Authority in the proper performance of its functions under this Ordinance.

(4) A person who is an employee, director, principal officer or agent of a person to whom this section applies shall assist and shall not obstruct a person exercising a power under this section.

(5) Any data, book, document or record removed under this section may be retained for any period not exceeding 6 months beginning on the day of its removal or, where the data, book, document or record is required in connection with any criminal proceedings, for such longer period as may be necessary for the purposes of those proceedings.

(6) Where a person removes any data, book, document or record under this section, he shall, as soon as is practicable, give a receipt for it, and he shall permit any person who would be entitled to inspect it but for its removal to inspect the same at any reasonable time and to make copies of and take extracts from it; but any such permission shall be subject to such reasonable conditions as to security or otherwise as the Broadcasting Authority may impose.

(7) Every person exercising any power under subsection (1) or (3) shall be furnished with a copy of his authorization and shall, upon request, produce for inspection, evidence of his identity and of his authorization.

(8) The powers conferred by subsections (1)(a) or (b) and (3) include a power—
 * (a) to require the person mentioned in subsection (1)(a) to extract or retrieve, or cause to be extracted or retrieved, in a visual or printed or other written form or on a computer disc, or in both, any information referred to in subsection (10) and specified by the person exercising the power, and if when extracted or retrieved the information is in a printed or other written form, to require the person so described to deliver it to the person exercising the power;
 * (b) to extract or retrieve himself, in either of or both such forms, by means of the equipment normally used for that purpose, any information so referred to; and
 * (c) to examine any information so extracted or retrieved and if thought fit to remove it.

(9) This section applies to a person who is a licensee or its associate.

(10) In this section— “data, book, document or record” (數據、簿冊、文件或紀錄) includes any information which—
 * (a) relates to a relevant business; and