158. (1) The appropriate officer, if he has reason to believe that any person is carrying about himself goods liable to confiscation or any documents relating thereto, may search such person, if he has landed from or is on board or is about to board a vessel within the Bangladesh customs-waters, or if he has alighted from or is about to get into or is in any other conveyance arriving in or proceeding from Bangladesh, or if he is entering or about to leave Bangladesh, or if he is within the limits of any customs-area. (2) Without prejudice to the provisions of sub-section (1) the appropriate officer may search a person, if he has reason to believe that such person is carrying about himself smuggled Platinum, any radio active mineral, gold, silver, precious stones, manufactures of Platinum, any radio active mineral, gold, silver or precious stones, or currency, or any other goods or class of goods notified by the Government in the official Gazette, or any documents relating to any one or more of the aforementioned goods.