Issue of search warrant  10. —​(1) Whenever it appears to any Magistrate upon information and after such inquiry as he thinks necessary that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any premises or place there is concealed or deposited any prohibited publication or extract therefrom, the Magistrate may, by warrant directed to any police officer, empower that officer to enter such premises or place by force if necessary to search for, seize and detain any such publication. [21/73]   (2) Whenever it appears to any police officer, not below the rank of sergeant, that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any premises or place there is concealed or deposited any prohibited publication or extract therefrom, and he has good grounds for believing that, by reason of the delay in obtaining a search warrant, the object of the search is likely to be frustrated, the police officer may enter and search such premises or place as if he were empowered to do so by a warrant issued under ​subsection (1)​. [8 [21/73]   Offences involving obscene publications 11.​ Any person who — makes or reproduces, or makes or reproduces for the purposes of sale, supply, exhibition or distribution to any other person; imports or has in his possession for the purposes of sale, supply, exhibition or distribution to any other person; or sells, offers for sale, supplies, offers to supply, exhibits or distributes to any other person, any obscene publication (not being a prohibited publication) knowing or having reasonable cause to believe the publication to be obscene shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both. [8A [  9​ /98]​