Body screening authority expanded with required prior supervisory approval; magistrate may act on screening reports. The substituted provision authorises the proper officer, with prior approval of the Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Customs, to detain and screen or scan a person suspected of concealing goods inside the body, preserving the person's statutory rights and consent; where goods appear secreted the officer must forward a report to the magistrate or produce the person before the magistrate. Sub section (6) is amended to allow the magistrate to act on reports arising from such screening or scanning.
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Body screening authority expanded with required prior supervisory approval; magistrate may act on screening reports.
The substituted provision authorises the proper officer, with prior approval of the Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Customs, to detain and screen or scan a person suspected of concealing goods inside the body, preserving the person's statutory rights and consent; where goods appear secreted the officer must forward a report to the magistrate or produce the person before the magistrate. Sub section (6) is amended to allow the magistrate to act on reports arising from such screening or scanning.
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