Common Gaming Houses Act · s 15

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15.
Magistrate may himself enter and search
A Magistrate or a senior police officer may himself do, what he may under sections 13 and 14 authorise a police officer to do, whenever such
Magistrate is competent to issue a warrant under such sections respectively and also in any of the following cases —
(a) if any person has within the preceding 6 months been convicted of having kept or used as a common gaming house the place proposed to be entered;
(b) if the place proposed to be entered is occupied by a club or society and he has reason to believe that habitual gaming is carried thereon;
(c) if he has personal knowledge of such facts and circumstances as to satisfy him that there are sufficient grounds for a search under sections 13 and 14, respectively; or
(d) if he receives the required information orally and under such circumstances that the object of a search would in his opinion be defeated by the delay necessary for reducing the information to writing:

Provided that the name and address of the person giving such information is known to or ascertained by such Magistrate before he acts upon such information.

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s 15Magistrate may himself enter and search

A Magistrate or a senior police officer may himself do, what he may under sections 13 and 14 authorise a police officer to do, whenever such

Magistrate is competent to issue a warrant under such sections respectively and also in any of the following cases —

(a)

if any person has within the preceding 6 months been convicted of having kept or used as a common gaming house the place proposed to be entered;

(b)

if the place proposed to be entered is occupied by a club or society and he has reason to believe that habitual gaming is carried thereon;

(c)

if he has personal knowledge of such facts and circumstances as to satisfy him that there are sufficient grounds for a search under sections 13 and 14, respectively; or

(d)

if he receives the required information orally and under such circumstances that the object of a search would in his opinion be defeated by the delay necessary for reducing the information to writing:

Provided that the name and address of the person giving such information is known to or ascertained by such Magistrate before he acts upon such information.