s 12 Search warrant against premises
(1) A Magistrate or Justice of the Peace or Senior Police Officer on being satisfied, upon written information and after any further inquiry which he may think necessary, that there is good reason to believe that any place is kept or used as a common betting house may by warrant under his hand authorize any person therein named, or any police officer with such assistance and by such force as is necessary by night or by day to enter or go to such place and to search the same and all persons found therein and to seize all books, documents, telegrams, writings, circulars, cards or other articles reasonably supposed to have been used or intended to be used as a subject or means of betting or wagering, or in connection therewith and all moneys and securities for money which are found in such place or on any such persons, and also to detain all such persons until they and the said place have been searched. (2) If any of the things or circumstances which are by this Act made presumptive evidence of guilt are found in such place, or on any person therein, every person therein shall be arrested and taken before a Magistrate to be dealt with according to law. (3) All books, documents, telegrams, writings, circulars, cards or other articles used as a subject or means of betting or wagering, or in connection therewith, and all moneys or securities for money found in a common betting house, or on any persons found therein, or escaping therefrom, which the Magistrate is of opinion were used or intended to be used for betting or wagering, shall be declared by him to be forfeited to the Government, and shall be dealt with accordingly.