Section 7: Powers of arrest, etc., and disposal of materials for counterfeiting currency

(1) Any person found committing an offence under this Act may be immediately apprehended without a warrant by any person and forthwith taken before a police officer thereafter to be dealt with according to law.
(2) If any person finds in any place whatsoever, or in the possession of any person without lawful authority or excuse-
(a) any false or counterfeit bank note or current coin resembling any lawful bank note or current coin; or
(b)
any instrument, tool, engine, machinery, implement, utensil or material whatsoever adapted and intended for the counterfeiting of any such bank note or coin,
he shall seize the counterfeit bank note or coin or counterfeiting instrument or material and carry it forthwith before a police officer.
(3)
Where it is made to appear by information on oath before a Judge of the Federal High Court or any Magistrate that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any person has been concerned in counterfeiting any bank note or current coin, or has in his possession any counterfeit bank note or current coin or any counterfeiting instrument or any other machine used or intended to be used for making or counterfeiting any bank note or current coin or any counterfeiting material, it shall be lawful for the judge of the Federal High Court or any magistrate by warrant under his hand-
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(a) to cause any place whatsoever belonging to or in the occupation or under the control of that person to be searched, either in the day or in the night; and
(b)
to cause to be seized and carried forthwith before a superior police officer any counterfeit bank note or coin or counterfeiting instrument, machine or material found in any place so searched.
(4) Where any counterfeit bank note or coin or counterfeiting instrument. machine or material is seized and carried before a superior police officer, he shall cause it to be secured for the purpose of being produced in evidence in a prosecution for an offence under this Act.
(5)
Any counterfeit bank note or coin or counterfeiting instrument tool, engine or any machinery, implement, utensil or any material whatsoever seized under this section shall, if it is not required to be produced in evidence or, if it is not required after it has been so produced, be disposed of in accordance with section 10 of this Act.