(1) Any officer of customs and excise or any member of the Gárda Síochána may enter any registered premises at any time during which such premises are or are suspected by such officer or member of being open for the transaction of any business, and may there make such searches and investigations as such officer or member shall think proper and may ask of any person found in such premises such questions in relation to the said premises and the business carried on therein as such officer or member shall think proper.

(2) Any officer or member of customs and excise or any member of the Garda Síochána may at any time enter any premises (not being registered premises) in which the business of bookmaking is being carried on, or in which such officer or member suspects that such business is being carried on and may there make such searches and investigations as such officer or member shall think proper and may demand of any person found in such premises his name and address and may ask of any such person such questions in relation to such premises and the business carried on therein as such officer or member shall think proper.

(3) Every person who shall do any of the following things, that is to say: -

(a) obstruct or impede any officer of customs and excise or any member of the Gárda Síochána in the exercise of any of the powers conferred on such officer or member by this section; or