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Cross-boundary Movement of Physical Currency and Bearer Negotiable Instruments Ordinance Part 3 Section 23 (2) A magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing an authorized officer to enter and search any premises or place if the magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that there is on the premises or in the place anything connected with a contravention of Part 2.

(3) If an authorized officer enters any premises or place under the authority of a warrant issued under subsection (2), the officer must, on request, produce the warrant and evidence of identity for inspection by a person found on the premises or in the place.

23. Further powers in relation to CBNIs etc.

(1) An authorized officer may exercise any or all of the powers under subsection (2) in relation to CBNIs, or anything the officer reasonably suspects to be connected with a contravention of Part 2, found as a result of the exercise of a power under section 16 or 21 (found item).

(2) The powers are—
 * (a) to require the production of any further thing that the authorized officer reasonably suspects to relate to the found item and, if produced, to examine the thing;
 * (b) if it is reasonably practicable to make a copy of the found item in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is either capable of being retrieved on a computer or visible and legible—
 * (i) to make such a copy or require the provision of such a copy; and
 * (ii) to take away the copy; and
 * (c) to use any force reasonably necessary for exercising a power under paragraph (a) or (b).