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(1) An officer in an emergency search of or for tainted property may

(a) enter any premises and search for, seize and detain tainted property;

(b) search a person who is in or on the premises and for the purpose of the search, detain that person and remove that person to a place that is necessary to facilitate the search;

(c) arrest a person who is in or on the premises in whose possession property liable to seizure or confiscation under the Act is found, or whom the officer reasonably believes to have concealed or deposited tainted property;

(d) seize and detain a book or document found in or on the premises or on that person;

(e) break open, examine and search an article, a container or a receptacle; or

(f) Stop, search and detain a means of conveyance.

(2) The officer may

(a) break open an outer or inner door or window of the premises which is the subject of a search  and enter  the premises;

(b) forcibly enter the premises and every part  of the premises; or

(c) Remove by force, an obstruction to the entry, search, seizure or removal that the officer is empowered to effect.