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101. Power to search suspected persons in certain other cases.

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(1) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 100, if an officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the [Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs], has reason to believe that any person has secreted about his person any goods of the description specified in sub-section (2) which are liable to confiscation, or documents relating thereto, he may search that person.

(2) The goods referred to in sub-section (1) are the following:--

(a) gold;
(b) diamonds;
(c) manufactures of gold or diamonds;
(d) watches;
(e) any other class of goods which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.