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Power to search premises [Section 105]

Power to search premises [Section 105]: 

Section 105 provides that if the Assistant/Deputy Commissioner of Customs or in any area adjoining the land frontier or the coast of India an officer of customs specially empowered by name in this behalf by the Board, has reason to believe that any goods liable to confiscation, or any documents or things which in his opinion will be useful for or relevant to any proceeding under this Act, are secreted in any place, he may authorise any officer of customs to search or may himself search for such goods, documents or things.

The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 relating to searches shall, so far as may be, apply to searches under this section.

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