Section 17: Search warrant

17. Search warrant (1) Where a Magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that an offence under this Act has been or is about to be committed, he may issue a search warrant authorising any police officer named in it to— (a) enter at any time any premises or place named in the warrant; (b) search the premises or place and every person found therein; and (c) seize any plan, article, or document, or anything that is or may be evidence of an offence under this Act having been or being about to be committed. (2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), where it appears to a police officer, not below the rank of Superintendent, that the case is one of great urgency and that, for the protection of the safety and interests of Mauritius, immediate action is necessary, he may, by a written order under his hand, give to any police officer the same powers that may be given by a warrant of a Magistrate under subsection (1).