(2)Any Gold Control Officer, not below the rank of a Superintendent of Central Excise, empowered in this behalf by the Central Government, may, if he has any reason to suspect that any provisions of this Act has been, or is being, or is about to be, contravened, authorise any officer of Government to enter and to search any premises, vaults, lockers, or any other place, whether above or below ground, or may himself do so.
