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Rh PART VII PUBLIC OFFICERS WITH POLICE POWERS Appointment of Commercial Affairs Officers

64.—(1) The Minister may appoint such number of persons to be Commercial Affairs Officers as he may think fit.

(2) A Commercial Affairs Officer may investigate any suspected offence which appears to him to have been committed under any written law.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2)—
 * (a) a Commercial Affairs Officer shall have all the powers of investigation conferred on police officers in relation to the investigation of offences under the Criminal Procedure Code (Cap. 68) or under such other written law as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe and shall be deemed to be an officer not below the rank of inspector; and
 * (b) section 25 shall apply to a Commercial Affairs Officer as if he were a police officer.

(4) The Commissioner may, in his discretion, confer on one or more Commercial Affairs Officers as he may determine the powers of an Assistant Superintendent of Police under such written law as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe.

(5) Apart from this section and section 25, this Act shall not apply to a Commercial Affairs Officer.

Intelligence officers

65.—(1) An intelligence officer who is designated by the Minister for the purposes of this section—
 * (a) shall have all the powers of investigation conferred on police officers in relation to the investigation of offences under the Criminal Procedure Code or under such other written law as the Minister may, by notification in the Gazette, prescribe and shall be deemed to be a police officer not below the rank of inspector; and