s 49 Entry and search by Magistrate, etc.
(1) Whenever a Magistrate, a senior police officer or an Officer in Charge of a Police District is competent to issue a warrant under section 47 or 48 he may himself exercise all the powers which may be conferred on a police officer under the section; and he may also exercise all such powers in any of the following cases: (a) in respect of any person who has within the preceding six months been convicted of any offence against this Act or any regulations made thereunder; (b) if he has personal knowledge of such facts and circumstances as satisfy him that there are sufficient grounds for a search under the said sections respectively; or (c) if he receives the required information orally, and either on oath or not on oath, under such circumstances that the object of a search would, in his opinion, be defeated by the delay necessary for reducing the information to writing: provided that in such event the name and address of the person giving the information are known to or ascertained by the Magistrate or senior police officer or Officer in Charge of a Police District, before he acts upon the information. (2) Whoever in giving such oral information makes a statement which he knows or believes to be false or does not believe to be true shall, on conviction, be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months or to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit, or to both.