Search of persons: authorised officers may search and seize with recorded reasons, subject to witness, gender and magistrate safeguards. An authorised officer who records in writing a reason to believe that a person conceals records or proceeds of crime may search and seize such items, prepare an inventory with witness signatures, record the person's statement, and forward the reasons and material in a sealed envelope to the Adjudicating Authority; female persons may be searched only by a female, and an application to retain seized property must be filed before the Adjudicating Authority within thirty days. If requested, the person must be taken within twenty four hours to a superior Gazetted Officer or Magistrate who may discharge the person if no reasonable ground for search exists.