17. Power to search premises

The licensing officer, on being satisfied upon any information and after any inquiry which he thinks necessary that there is good reason to believe that any place is used for the carrying on of the business of a security guard agency by a person who is not the holder of a licence, may by warrant or writing under his hand authorise any person therein named or any police

Security Agencies officer, with such assistance and by such force as is necessary, by day or by night, to enter or go to that place and to search the place and all persons found therein, and to seize all documents and things reasonably supposed to have been used or intended to be used in connection with the business of a security guard agency which are found in that place or on those persons, and also to detain all those persons until they and the place have been searched.