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(ii) any document which relates to the origin or nature of any article or which he reasonably suspects to be relevant to an offence under this Ordinance;

(iii) any document required to be kept by this Ordinance; or

(iv) any information that is relevant to a declaration required to be given to the Organization under the Convention;

(d) examine and take copies of any permit or of any document referred to in paragraph (c);

(e) require any information relating to any permit or any document referred to in paragraph (c)(i), (ii) or (iii), or any information which is information referred to in paragraph (c)(iv), that is—

(i) contained in a computer in, on or accessible from the premises, place, vessel, aircraft or vehicle entered or boarded under this section; or

(ii) contained in any device found in or on the premises, place, vessel, aircraft or vehicle entered or boarded under this section and which is capable of being retrieved on a computer,

to be produced on a computer in or on the premises, place, vessel, aircraft or vehicle in visible and legible form, and examine the information;

(f) require any information described in paragraph (e) to be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is either capable of being retrieved on a computer or visible and legible;

(g) take away the copy so produced under paragraph (f);

(h) inspect or examine any article which he reasonably suspects to be relevant to an offence under this Ordinance;

(i) take, without payment but subject to the issue of an official receipt for it, a sample of any article referred to in paragraph (h);

(j) inspect or examine any article if he considers it necessary to do so to ascertain whether or not the provisions of this Ordinance are being, or have been, complied with by any person in respect of that article;

(k) operate any equipment, including electronic equipment, located at the facility if he believes, on reasonable grounds, that the equipment can be operated without damaging it; or

(l) stop and search any person entering or leaving Hong Kong whom he reasonably suspects of having committed an offence under this Ordinance; but no person shall be searched except by a person of the same sex, or be searched in a public place if he objects to being so searched.