32.—(1) The Licensing Officer may authorise, by writing, any police officer to search any house or the houses in any district for any guns, arms, explosives or poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance, and may in like manner authorise the police officer to require any person or the persons living in any district to produce his or their licence or licences for the possession of guns, arms, explosives or poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance, and to produce or account for the things covered thereby.
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(2) Any person who fails to give a satisfactory account to the police officer for any guns, arms, explosives or poisonous or noxious gas or noxious substance in his possession or under his control during the existence or after the expiry, suspension or cancellation of a licence shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.