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Power to search where octroi is leviable:- (1) If any person, bringing or re- ceiving conveyance or package within the octroi or 4[terminal tax] limits of a municipality on which octroi or 5[terminal tax] is or is believed to be leviable, shall refuse, on the demand of an officer 6[authorized by the State Government or the com- mittee] in this behalf, to permit the officer to inspect, weigh or otherwise examine the contents of the conveyance or package for the purpose of ascertaining whether it con- tains any articles in respect of which octroi or 7[terminal tax] is payable or shall refuse to communicate to tht officer any information and exhibit to him any bill, invoice or document of a like nature which he may possess relating to the article, or with the in- tention of defrauding the committee or a lessee under section 83 shall communicate any such information which is false or exhibit any such bill, invoice or document of a like nature which is false, forged or fraudulent he shall be punishable with a fine which may extend to fifty rupees. (2) Any such person may demand that the conveyance or package or both as the case 54 The Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, Section 75