State Act

THE UNITED PROVINCES OPIUM SMOKING ACT, 1934

19. If a Magistrate, upon information received and after such enquiry (if any) as he considers necessary, has reason to believe that any place is used for the commission of an offence under this Act he may issue a warrant to an officer of the Excise Department not below such rank as the [State Government]1 may prescribe authorizing him-- (a) to enter such place by day or by night with any person whose assistance such officer may consider necessary ; (b) to search all or parts of such place in which such officer has reason to believe that any prepared opium or any apparatus for the manufacture of prepared opium or for smoking prepared opium is concealed and all or any poisons whom he may find in such place ; (c) to arrest any person found in such place whom he has reason to believe to be guilty of all offence under this Act; and (d) to seize all prepared opium, apparatus for smoking prepared opium or for the manufacture of prepared opium and any other article used for the commission of an offence under this Act, which may be found in such place.