}
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Special powers of investiga- tion
in non- seizable offences. Cap. 132.
Public Prosecutor's
power to order inspection
of bankers' books.
Cap. 119,
REPRINTS SUPPLEMENT
Director or an Assistant Director or any police officer of or above the rank of Assistant Superintendent named in such order or any senior special investigator so named to make an investigation in the matter in such manner or mode as may be specified in such order. Such order may authorise the investigation of any bank account, share account, purchase account, expense account or any other account, or any safe deposit box in any bank, and shall be sufficient authority for the disclosure or production by any person of all or any information or accounts or documents or articles as may be required by the officer so authorised.
(2) Any person who fails to disclose such information or to produce such accounts or documents or articles to the person so authorised shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
18. The Public Prosecutor may by order authorise the Director or an Assistant Director or a senior special inves- tigator to exercise, in the the case of any non-seizable offence, all or any of the special powers in relation to police investi- gations contained in Chapter XIII of the Criminal Procedure Code.
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19.-(1) The Public Prosecutor may, if he considers that any evidence of the commission of an offence under this Ordinance or under sections 161 to 165 or 213 to 215 of the Penal Code or of a conspiracy to commit, or an attempt to commit, or an abetment of any such offence by a person in the service of the Government or of any department thereof or of a public body is likely to be found in any banker's book relating to such person, his wife or child or to a person reasonably believed by the Public Prosecutor to be a trustee or agent for such person, by order authorise the Director or any Assistant Director or any police officer of or above the rank of Assistant Superintendent named in such order or any senior special investigator so named to inspect any such book and the Director or Assistant Director or a police officer or senior special investigator so authorised may, at all reasonable times, enter the bank specified in such order and inspect such books kept therein and may take copies of any relevant entry in any such book.