THE MYANMAR OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT. relating to any such person or persons, and if any person fails to give any such information, he shall be guilty of an offence under this section. (3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine, or with both. Search warrants. 11. (1) If a Magistrate of the first class or Subdivisional Magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Act has been or is about to be committed, he may grant a search-warrant authorising any police-officer named therein, not being below the rank of an officer in charge of a police station, to enter at any time any premises or place named in the warrant, if necessary, by force, and to search the premises or place and every person found therein, and to seize any sketch, plan, model, article, note or document, or anything of a like nature, or anything which is evidence of an offence under this Act having been or being about to be committed, which he may find on the premises or place or any such person, and with regard to or in connection with which he has reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Act has been or is about to be committed. (2) Where it appears to a police-officer, not being below the rank of Superintendent, that the case is one of great emergency, and that in the interests of the State immediate action is necessary, he may by a written order under his hand give to any police-officer the like authority as may be given by the warrant of a Magistrate under this section. (3) Where action has been taken by a police-officer under sub-section (2) he shall, as soon as may be, report such action to the District or Subdivisional Magistrate. Power to arrest. 12. Notwithstanding anything in the Code of Criminal Procedure(a) an offence punishable under section 3 or under section 3 read with section 9 with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen years shall be a cognizable and non-bailable offence; (b) an offence under clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 6 shall be a cognizable and bailable offence; and (c) every other offence under this Act shall be a non-cognizable and bailable offence, in respect of which a warrant of arrest shall ordinarily issue in the first instance. Restriction on trial of offences. 13. (1) No Court (other than that of a Magistrate of the first class specially empowered in this behalf by the President of the Union) which is inferior to that of a District Magistrate shall try any offence under this Act. (2) If any person under trial before a Magistrate for an offence under this Act at any time before a charge is framed claims to be tried by the Court of Session, the Magistrate shall, if he does not discharge the accused, commit the case for trial by that Court, notwithstanding that it is not a case exclusively triable by that Court. Page 7 of 8