Section 24A(3) of the Arms Act, 1959 ensures that searches and seizures under this section:

Section 24A(3) says "the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 ... relating to searches and seizures shall, so far as may be, apply" to searches and seizures under sub-section (1). Such action is therefore not exempt from the Code, and the procedure of s.22, which concerns magistrates' searches, is not the one applied.

Current law: the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 was replaced by the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 from 1 July 2024, and under s.8 of the General Clauses Act, 1897 the reference is read as one to the corresponding provisions of that Sanhita.