(1) If any Gold Control Officer has reason to believe that in respect of any gold any provision of this Ordinance has been, or is being, or is about to be, contravened, then, he may seize—
(a) such gold along with the package, covering or receptacle, if any (and the contents thereof), in which the gold ia found;
(b) any other goods in which any quantity of such gold has been mixed.
(2) Any Gold Control Officer may seize—
(a) any document or other thing which, in his opinion, will be useful for, or relevant to, any inquiry or proceeding for the contravention of any provision of this Ordinance or any rule or order made thereunder;
(b) any conveyance or animal which has been, or is being, or is aibout to be, used for the transport of any gold i!n relation to which any provision of this Ordinance or any rule or order made thereunder has been, or is being, or is about to be, contravened.
(3) Any document or other thing seized under sub-section (2) shall not be retained by the Gold Control Officer for a period exceeding six months from the date of the seizure unless the reasons for retaining the same are recorded by him in writing and the approval of the Administrator for such retention is obtained:
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Provided that the Administrator shall not authorise the retention ol the document or otner thing ior a period exceeding thirty days after all proceedings under this Ordinance, Jror which the document or other thing is uweiul or relevant, are completed.
(4) The person from whose custody any document or other thing is seized u'nder sub-section (2), may make copies thereof or take exiracts therefrom in the presence of the Gold Control Officer or any jther person empowered by him in this behalf, at such place and at such time as the Gold Control Officer may appoint In this behalf.
(5) If a person legally entitled to the document or other thing seized under sub-section (2) objects for any reason to the approval oeing given by the Administrator under sub-section (3), he may make an application to the Central Government stating therein tiie reasons for such objection and requesting for the return of the document or other thing.
(6) On receipt of the application u'ader sub-section (5), the Central Government may, after giving the applicant an opportunity 01 being heard, pass such orders as it may think fit Presumption as to documents In certain cases
68. Where any document is produced by any person under this Ordinance or has been seizea thereunder from the custody or conirol of any person and such document is tendered by the prosecution n evidence against him, the court shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any/ other law for the time being in force,—
(a) presume, unless the contrary is proved,—
(i) the truth of the contents of such document,
(ii) that the signature and every other part of such document which purports to be in the handwriting of any particular person or which the court may reasonably assume to have been signed by or to be in the handwriting of, any particular person, is in that person's handwriting, and in the case of a document executed or attested, that it was executed or attested by the person by whom it purports to have been so executed or attested;
(b) admit the document in evidence, notwithstanding that it is not duly stamped if such document is otherwise admissible in evidence.
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