(1) The district magis- |rate or the district superintendent of police, or any police officer not below the rank of officer in charge of a police station upon being duly empowered by a warrant issued by either of such officers may, by day or night, enter Bac. I] 'IJ3E GAZETTE 0$ INDIA EXTBAOEt>lj\Aft¥ bilo and search with such assistance as may be necessary, any place which ifl reasonably believed to be used as a betting office and seize any tickets, coupons, registers, books ur other documents iound therein and used, or intended to be used 01 icasonnbly suspected to be used, us a record or evidence of any wager of bet upon any tight, game or exercise.
(£) All searcheb under Mib-seehon (2) shall bo made in accordance with the provisions oi t,u(> s ction (3) oi section 102 and oi section 103 of the Code.
(3) No warrant issued under sub-section (i) shall be executed after the expiry of seven days from the date thereot, (4.) When any place is enteml under Bub-section (i) by a police officer other than the district supenntumlont of polite, he shall immediately after the completion ot the proceedings, submit) a leport thereof to the district magistrate or if the warrant was issued by the district superintendent of police, to that officer.
10 Presumption respecting Instruments of gaining found in places entered—When any insUumcnt ot gimiijm ifc found in any place entered under the provisions of this lte^ulatiou, or about the persona of any oi tho&e who aietound then.111, it ahulJ be piuMiuiul until tho contrary is proved, that such place ife ubt-d a^ a com non gamfug-houso, and that the persons found theiein weip theie picseiit foi ilia puipose oi gaming, although no play was actually .seen by the inagiatiate oi police officer, or by any one aiding in the entry.
.11. Tender of pardon to accomplice.- (1) It shall be lawful for the magistrate, before whom an} pi ison i& aw. used of an offence under section 3 oi heotion 4 oi net. turn 5 oi M« tion (5, with a view to obtaining on the trial the evidence of tlio poison touching any unlawful gaming or touching anything done with retoienoo to, or in furtherance of, any unlawful gaming, or touching any act done lor the puipose of preventing, obstructing or delaying the entry into any place ot tiny magistrate or police officer authorised to make such entry, to Icndei it ptudon to such person on condition of his making a full and true disclosure oi the whole of the circumstances within his knowledge relative to the off< nee and to every other person concerned, whether as principal or nbettoL1 in the commission thereof.
{2) The provisionb o{ sections 837, ?AV.) and S30A of the Code shall apply to any person to whom a pardon has been tendered under sub-section
(1) as thoy apply to any perbon to whom a purdon has boen tondered under |hose provisions.