(1)Without prejudice to the provisions of section 100, if an officer of customs empowered in this behalf by general or special order of the 1[Principal Commissioner of Customs or Commissioner of Customs], has reason to believe that any person has secreted about his person any goods of the description specified in sub-section (2) which are liable to confiscation, or documents relating thereto, he may search that person.
(2)The goods referred to in sub-section (1) are the following:—
(a)gold;
(b)diamonds;
(c)manufactures of gold or diamonds;
(d)watches;
(e)any other class of goods which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, specify.