Section 4. Power to make searches.

If the Collector or the officer appointed under section 3 has reason to believe that any holder is not likely to deliver the land records as required by section 3 or is likely to destroy them or tamper with them, he may, for the purpose of recovering such records, issue a search warrant and exercise all such powers with respect thereto as may be lawfully exercised by a magistrate under the provisions of Chapter VII of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 18981 (V of 1898).