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(b) may for the purposes of such investigation, with the written consent of the Attorney General and with such assistance as may be necessary, enter and search any office registry or other room of or used by a public body or any member thereof:
Provided that the Governor may by order exempt any office, registry or room from entry and search under the provisions of this paragraph.
(2) Any person who-
(a) when requested under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) to render assistance, wilfully neglects or fails to render such assistance; or
(b) obstructs or resists any police officer or Crown servant in the exercise of the powers of entry and search con- ferred by paragraph (b) of subsection (1),
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for one year.
17. (1) If it appears to the Attorney General, or to the Director, that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any place other than an office, registry or other room of or used by a public body or any member thereof there is any document or thing containing any evidence of the commission of an offence under this Ordinance, the Attorney General or the Director may, by warrant directed to any police officer, empower such police officer to enter such place, by force if necessary, and there to search for, seize and detain any such document or thing.
(2) Where there is reasonable cause to believe that in any place other than an office, registry or other room of or used by a public body or any member thereof, there is concealed or deposited any document or thing containing evidence of the commission of an offence under this Ordinance and that, by reason of the delay likely in obtaining a warrant under subsection (1), the object of the search is likely to be frustrated, any gazetted police officer may exercise in and in respect of such place all the powers mentioned in subsection (1) in as full and ample a manner as if he were empowered to do so by warrant issued under that subsection.
(3) Without prejudice to any other law relating to entry and search, the chambers of counsel or the office of a solicitor are not subject to entry and search under this section or any warrant issued under this section except in the course of investigating an offence under this Ordinance alleged or suspected to have
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