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If a Magistrate, upon information received and after such enquiry (if any) as he considers necessary, has reason to believe that any place is used for the commission of an offence under this Act he may issue a warrant to an officer of the Excise Department not below such rank as the [State Government]1 may prescribe authorizing him-- (a) to enter such place by day or by night with any person whose assistance such officer may consider necessary ; (b) to search all or parts of such place in which such officer has reason to believe that any prepared opium or any apparatus for the manufacture of prepared opium or for smoking prepared opium is concealed and all or any poisons whom he may find in such place ; 1- Subs. by A. O. 1950 for (Provincial Government) which had been subs . by. A.O 1937 for (Local Government). 210 [The United Provinces Opium Smoking Act, 1934] [Section 19A-23] (c) to arrest any person found in such place whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of all offence under this Act; and (d) to seize all prepared opium, apparatus for smoking prepared opium or for the manufacture of prepared opium and any other article used for the commission of an offence under this Act, which may be found in such place. [Power to search 19-A Whenever the Collector or any officer of the Excise Department authorized in that behalf by the State Government, or a police officer not below the rank of an officer in charge of a police station has reasonable grounds for believing that an offence punishable under this Act has been or is being committed in any place and anything necessary for purposes of investigation into the offence may be found in any place within the limits of his territorial jurisdiction and that such a thing cannot, in his opinion be otherwise obtained without undue delay, he may after recording in writing the grounds of his belief search or cause to be made of any such place.]1 [Applicability of the code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 to warrant and search