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Evidence of accomplice.
Obstruction of search.
Legal obligation to give
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or property or to have obtained such accretion in trust for or on behalf of such accused person or as a gift from a 2 accused person.
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24. Notwithstanding any rule of law or written law to the contrary, no witness shall, in any such trial or inquiry as is referred to in section 23 of this Ordinance, be presumed to be unworthy of credit by reason only of any payment or de- livery by him or on his behalf of any gratification to an agent or member of a public body.
25. Any person who-
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(a) refuses the Director, any Assistant Director, police officer, senior special investigator or special investigator authorised to enter or search, access to any place; or
(b) assaults, obstructs, hinders or delays him in effect- ing any entrance which he is entitled to effect under this Ordinance, or in the execution of any duty imposed or power conferred by this Ordin-
ance; or
(c) fails to comply with any lawful demands of the Director, an Assistant Director, a police officer, senior special investigator or special investigator in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance;
or
(d) refuses or neglects to give any information which may reasonably be required of him and which he has it in his power to give,
shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both such fine and imprisonment.
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26. Every person required by the Director, an Assistant Director, a police officer, senior special investigator or special information. investigator to give any information on any subject which it is the Director's, such Assistant Director's, police officer's or investigator's duty to inquire into under this Ordinance and which it is in his power to give, shall be legally bound to give such information.
Abetment of offences. Cap. 119.
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27. Whoever abets, within the meaning of the Penal Code
(a) the commission of an offence under this Ordinance;
or