7. Amendment of section 17. - In section 17 of the principal Act, in sub-section (1),- (i) in the opening portion, for the words ''the Director", the words "the Director or any other officer not below the rank of Deputy Director authorised by him for the purposes of this section," shall be substituted;
(ii) for the proviso, the following proviso shall be substituted, namely:- "Provided that no search shall be conducted unless, in relation to the scheduled offence, a report has been forwarded to a Magistrate under section 157 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, or a complaint has been filed by a person, authorised to investigate the offence mentioned in the Schedule, before a Magistrate or court for taking cognizance of the scheduled offence, as the case may be.".
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