(1) If the public prosecution office has taken over prosecution of the regulatory offence (section 42), the staff of such administrative authority as would otherwise be competent, being entrusted with the investigation of regulatory offences, has the same rights and duties as police officials in regulatory fining proceedings. Such administrative authority may order confiscations, emergency sales, searches and investigations in accordance with the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure applicable to investigative personnel of the public prosecution office.
(2) Such administrative authority is informed of the indictment and of the request for issuance of a penal order to the extent that they relate to a regulatory offence.
(3) If the public prosecution office considers discontinuing the proceedings in respect of a regulatory offence in cases falling under section 40 or 42, it hears the administrative authority that would otherwise be competent. The public prosecution office may dispense with this if the administrative authority's particular expertise may be dispensed with for the decision.