Singapore legislation
Clause 19
Clause 19
Power to search premises
The licensing officer, on being satisfied upon any information and after any further inquiry which he thinks necessary that there is good reason to believe that any place is used for the carrying on of the business of a private investigator or of a security guard agency by a person who is not the holder of a licence, may by warrant or writing under his hand authorise any person therein named or any police officer, with such assistance and by such force as is necessary, by day or by night, to enter or go to such place and to search the same and all persons found therein, and to seize all documents and things reasonably supposed to have been used or intended to be used in connection with the business of a private investigator or a security guard agency which are found in such place or on such persons, and also to detain all such persons until they and the said place have been searched.