70. If a Magistrate's Court upon information and after such inquiry as it thinks necessary has reason to believe-
| (a) that any place is used for the deposit or sale of stolen property or of property unlawfully obtained ; or |
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| (b) that any place is used for the deposit or sale or manufacture of forged documents, false seals, or counterfeit stamps or coin, or instruments or materials for counterfeiting coin or stamps or for forging ; or |
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| (c) that any stolen property or property unlawfully obtained, forged documents, false seals, or counterfeit stamps or coin, or instruments or materials used for counterfeiting coin or stamps or for forging, are concealed, kept, or deposited in any place, |
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it may by warrant authorize the person to whom such warrant is directed-
| (i) to enter with such assistance as may be required such place; and |
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| (ii) to search the same in manner specified in the warrant ; and |
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| (iii) to take possession of any property, documents, seals, stamps, or coins therein found which he reasonably suspects to be stolen, unlawfully obtained, forged, false, or counterfeit and also of any such instruments and materials as aforesaid ; and |
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| (iv) to convey such property, documents, seals, stamps, coins, instruments, or materials before a Magistrate's Court or to guard the same on the spot until the offender is taken before a Magistrate's Court or otherwise to dispose thereof in some place of safety; and |
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| (v) to take into custody and bring before a Magistrate's Court every person found in such place who appears to have been privy to the deposit, sale, or manufacture, or keeping of any such property, documents, seals, stamps, coins, instruments or materials, knowing or having reasonable cause to suspect the said property to have been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained or the said documents, seals, stamps, coins, instruments or materials to have been forged, falsified, or counterfeited or the said instruments or materials to have been or to be intended to be used for counterfeiting coin or stamps or for forging. |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts