(1) Subject to such rules as may be prescribed, any Obtaining officer authorised in this behalf by the State Government infmnamay, with a view to securing compliance with the provition, etc.
sions of this Act,—
(a) require any person to give any information in his • possession with respect to any business carried on by that or any other person;
enter with such assistants, if any, being persons in service of the State Government, as he thinks fit, any premises and— make or cause to be made by such assistants such examination of premises and of any accounts, books, documents and stocks of jute therein as he thinks fit ;
(ii) take or cause to be taken by such assistants extracts from copies of any accounts, books or documents referred to in sub-clause (i) ;
(iii) seize, or cause to be seized by such assistants any stocks of jute in respect of which he suspects that any offence under this Act has been committed and also any accounts, books or other documents referred to in sub-clause (i) which are in his opinion relevant to prove the commission of such offence and keep such stocks of jute, accounts, books or documents in his custody or in such other custody as may be prescribed, pending investigation or prosecution.
(2) Any person who fails to give any information required to be given under clause (a) of sub-section (1) or who obstructs any person in the exercise of any power conferred by clause (b) of that sub-section shall be guilty of an offence under this Act and shall be punishable with imprisonment which may extend to six months or with fine or with both.
(b)
(i)