Upon finding any newspapers, articles, journals, magazines, books or other
published printed materials published in contravention of the points enacted in this
law, any police officers or others in whom the Revolutionary Government of the
Union of Myanmar has invested authority in this matter may seize the material in
any place.
(2)
Any Regional Criminal Judge or State Criminal Judge or a First Grade
Criminal Judge or a police officer not lower than the rank of Police Chief [XXX yeh
ouq] can be authorised to obtain a warrant to enter and search a place where
newspapers, articles, journals, magazines, books or other published printed materials
published in contravention of the points enacted in this law are concealed or where it
is suspected they may be concealed. A police officer may seize the documents and
records he finds in that place if in his opinion they are newspapers, articles, journals,
magazines, books or other published printed materials published in contravention of
the points enacted in this law are concealed or where it is suspected they may be
concealed.
(3)
All documents and records seized according to Subsection (1) must be
submitted immediately, as promptly as possible, to a Regional Criminal Judge, to a
State Criminal Judge or to a First Grade Criminal Judge. All documents and records
seized under Subsection (2) must be submitted immediately, as promptly as possible
to the Regional Criminal Court or the State Criminal Court, or the First Grade
Criminal Court who issued the search warrant.
(4) If the Regional Criminal Judge or State Criminal Judge or First Grade Criminal
Judge, or the Regional Criminal Court or State Criminal Court or First Grade
Criminal Court considers such documents and records to be newspapers, articles,
journals, magazines, books or other published printed materials published in
contravention of the points enacted in this law, then they may have them destroyed.
If the Regional Criminal Judge or State Criminal Judge or First Grade Criminal
Judge, or the Regional Criminal Court or State Criminal Court or First Grade
Criminal Court considers such documents and records not to be newspapers, articles,
journals, magazines, books or other published printed materials published in
contravention of the points enacted in this law, then those documents and records are
to be dealt with using the methods set out in Articles 523, 524 and 525 of the
Criminal Legal Code.
15. T
he printing press which printed newspapers, articles, journals, magazines,
books or other published printed materials published in contravention of the
points enacted in this law may he seized and kept as treasury property
(1) If a Regional Criminal Judge, State Criminal Judge or First Grade Criminal
Judge has reason to believe a particular printing press to be producing
newspapers, articles, journals, magazines, books or other published printed
materials published in contravention of the points enacted in this law within the
area under his jurisdiction, he may empower a police officer of rank no lower