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Section 101: Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases
- (1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 100, if an officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the 1[Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs], has reason to believe that any person has secreted about his person any goods of the description specified in sub-section (2) which are liable to confiscation, or documents relating thereto, he may search that person.
- (2) The goods referred to in sub-section (1) are the following:–
- (a) gold;
- (b) diamonds;
- (c) manufactures of gold or diamonds;
- (d) watches;
- (e) any other class of goods which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.
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