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ACT III OF 1997 ACT III OF 1997 ANTI‑NARCOTICS FORCE ACT, 1997 6. Power of the members of the Force.‑‑(1) The members of the Force shall, for the purpose of any inquiry or investigation under this Act, have throughout Pakistan such powers, including the powers relating to search, arrest of persons and seizures of property, and such duties, privileges and liabilities as a police officer has in respect of offences under the Code or any other law for the time being in force. (2) Save when the Director‑General otherwise direct, a member of the Force, not below the rank of an Inspector may, for the purpose of any inquiry or investigation under this Act, exercise all the powers of an officer incharge of a police station in any area in which he is for the time being and, when so exercising such powers, shall be deemed to be the officer incharge of a police station discharging his functions as such within the limits of his station. (3) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1) and subsection (2), any member of the Force not below the rank of Inspector, authorized by the Director‑General in this behalf, may arrest without warrant any person who has committed, or against whom a reasonable suspicion exists that he has committed, any of the offences relating to Narcotics referred to in clause (a) of section 5. (4) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, a member of the Force not below the rank of Inspector authorised by the Director‑General, may inquire, investigate and trace the assets of a person who has committed an offence referred to in clause (a) of section 5 or when in his opinion, there is a reasonable suspicion that the said assets were acquired through illicit involvement in narcotics, and may, for this purpose, require a bank or other financial institution or departments, whether under the control of Government or otherwise to furnish such information as he may specify. (5) If, in the opinion of a member of the Force, conducting an inquiry investigating or tracing any assets under subsection (4), which is likely to be removed, transferred or otherwise disposed of, such member may, notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, by order in writing direct the owner or any person who is for the time being in possession thereof, not to remove, transfer, or otherwise dispose‑ of such property in any manner except with the previous permission of that member and such order shall be subject to any order made by the Court having jurisdiction in the matter. (6) Any contravention of any order made under subsection ('4) or (5) shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both. (7) Any member of the Force may, in performance of his functions and exercise of powers as may be prescribed, seek assistance from all officers of police, customs, excise, Federal Investigation Agency or any other investigation agency or authority or civil armed forces. (8) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, the Federal Government may, in respect of any case registered by or under investigation of, police, customs, excise, Federal Investigation Agency or any other investigation agency or authority, by order in writing, entrust inquiry or such investigation to the Force, and thereupon the police, customs, excise, Federal Investigation Agency or any other investigation agency or authority shall transfer the record of the case to the Force. (9) The Force may, in accordance with the law, establish as many police stations as are required for the efficient functioning of the Force and all Police Stations of Anti‑Narcotics Task Force and Pakistan Narcotics Control Board shall be deemed to be the police stations of the Force. Explanation.‑‑For the purpose of this Ordinance, the expression "police station" means and includes any place declared, as such, by the Federal Government or a Provincial Government to be a police station within the meaning of the Code.