(2) Approval may not be given under sub‑section (1) unless the Federal Government__
(a) suspects that persons, whose identity may or may not be known, have engaged in, are
engaging in or are about to engage in, conduct constituting an offence against this Act or a
similar law of a foreign State; and
(b) is satisfied that the proposed operations are properly designed to give such persons an
opportunity to manifest that conduct or provide other evidence of it.
(3) The Federal Government may give approval from time to time for a period not exceeding
three months.
(4) Without limiting the generality of sub‑section (1), the activities which nay be undertaken by
an authorised participant in the course of and for the purposes of a controlled delivery and under
cover operation include__
(a) allowing any conveyance to enter or leave Pakistan;
(b) allowing any narcotic drug, psychotropic substance, manufactured drug, controlled
substance, property or other thing in or on the conveyance to be delivered or collected;
(c) using such force as may be reasonable in the circumstances to enter and search the
conveyance;
(d) placing a tracking device in or on the conveyance; and
(e) allowing any person who has possession or custody of the narcotic drug, psychotropic
substance, manufactured drug, controlled substance, property or other thing to enter or
leave Pakistan.
(5) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force an authorized
participant in an undercover operation or a controlled delivery shall not incur any criminal liability by
taking part in it in accordance with the terms of approval.
(6) Any drug of dependence, controlled chemical, controlled equipment or controlled material
imported into Pakistan in the course of an approved undercover operation or controlled delivery shall
be liable to be dealt with as if it were a prohibited import for the purposes of the Custom Act, 1969
(IV of 1969).
25. Mode of making searches and arrest. The provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure,
1898, except those of section 103, shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to all searches and arrests in so far
as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of sections 20, 21, 22 and 23 to all warrants issued
and arrests and searches made under these sections.
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