Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts Sri Lanka Consolidated ActsSearch Warrants. [ 9, 40 of 1958.]
| 7. In the course of an investigation of an allegation of bribery, the Bribery Commissioner or any officer authorized in that behalf by the Bribery Commissioner may make to such Magistrate in his chambers as the Bribery Commissioner may determine an application for, and such Magistrate may upon such application issue, a search warrant authorizing the person or persons specified in that behalf in such application to enter and search, with such assistance as may be required, any place, premises, building or house so specified and to take possession of and remove any book, document or thing relevant to the matters to which such investigation relates ; and the provisions of sections 20, 25, 26, 74, 75 and 76 of the Criminal Procedure Code shall apply to search warrants issued under this section, and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in that Code, it shall not be necessary to take any book, document or thing seized under a search warrant issued under this section before the Magistrate who issued that warrant or any other Magistrate. |