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(1) The Executive Director shall apply to the Court, without notice to the person or entity specified in the application, to issue a warrant authorizing a police officer to enter premises in the possession of or under the control of the specified person or entity to search and remove a document specified in the application if

(a) the person or entity required to produce a document to the Office fails or refuses to produce the document,

(b) the Executive director is of the opinion that the service of the notice to produce a document shall prejudice the investigation, or

(c) it is not practicable to give a disclosure notice requiring the production of the document.

(2) An authorized officer of the Office shall accompany the police officer authorized to execute the warrant.

(3) The authorized officer of the Office shall prepare an inventory of the documents retrieved in duplicate and hand over a copy of the inventory to the person or entity from whom the document was retrieved.

(4) The Office may take possession of the document for a period necessary for the investigation or trial and any proceedings subsequent to trial.

(5) a person or entity from whom a document has been retrieved is entitled to apply to the court within twenty-one days after the date of retrieval, for an order

(a) to set aside the search, removal or retrieval, and

(b) for the restoration of the document.