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Search warrents and power to search :- (1) If a Magistrate of the first or second class upon information received and after such enquiry if any as he considers necessary has reason to believe that any place is used for the purposes of an opium smoking assembly or of keeping opium, he may- (a) enter any such place by day or night with any persons whose assistance such officer may consider necessary; (b) search all parts of such place in which such officer has reason to believe that any opium or any apparatus for the perparation of opium or for opium smoking is concealed and all or any person he may find in such place; (c) arrest any person found in such place whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of an offence under this Act;