s.42Power of search
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Section 42Part 5 — Additional Provisions Relating to Credit Unions

Power of search

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If a magistrate or justice of the peace is satisfied by information on oath given by the Authority that —
there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence against this Part has been or is being committed and that evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found at any premises specified in the information, or in any vehicle, vessel or aircraft so specified; or
any books, records, vouchers, documents, cash or securities which ought to have been produced under section 40(3) and have not been produced are to be found at any such premises or in any such vehicle, vessel or aircraft,
The person authorised by any such warrant to search any premises or any vehicle, vessel or aircraft may search every person who is found in or whom that person has reasonable grounds to believe to have recently left or to be about to enter those premises or that vehicle, vessel or aircraft, as the case may be, and may seize any books, records, vouchers, documents, cash or securities found in the possession of any such person or in such premises or in such vehicle, vessel or aircraft which that person has reasonable grounds for believing ought to have been produced under section 40(3).
No female shall, in pursuance of any warrant issued under this section, be searched except by a female.
Where, under this section, a person has any power to enter any premises, that person may use such force as is reasonably necessary for the purpose of exercising that power.
Whoever obstructs the Authority or any other person in the exercise of any powers conferred under this section, commits an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for six months.

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