Section 7, The Currency Control and Economic Sabotage Act, 1989 [Margin: Short title.]

(1) Any police officer not below the rank of Superintendent who has reasonable grounds for suspecting or believing that currency above the prescribed amount is being kept or hoarded either on the person, including anything he may be carrying, or in a vehicle or that any act of economic sabotage is being or has been or is about to be committed may, without warrant and using such force as is reasonably necessary, stop and search— (a) any person so suspected; or 4 No. 5 Currency Control and Economic Sabotage 19[illegible] (b) any such vehicle, in order to make any arrests that may be necessary or to seize any currency above the prescribed amount that may be found, and a receipt shall be issued for any amount so seized. (2) Any police officer not below the rank of Superintendent who has reasonable grounds for suspecting or believing that currency above the prescribed amount is being kept or hoarded in any premises contrary to the provisions of sections 3 or 4 or that any act of economic sabotage is being or has been or is about to be committed contrary to section 6 may with warrant and using such force as may be reasonably necessary enter and search any such premises, in order to make any arrests that may be necessary or to seize any currencies that may be found, and a receipt shall be issued for any amount so seized. [Margin: Power of Police to admit to bail.] [Margin: No. 32 of 1965.]