IMMIGRATION BILL
(g) search any person who is or has been or may be arrested or detained under this Ordinance and any property belonging to him or under his control.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, any public officer
may-
(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any prem- ises or place which he is empowered to enter and search; (b) stop and forcibly board any ship, aircraft, vehicle or
train which he is empowered to board and search:
(c)
stop any person whom he is empowered to search; (d) remove by force any person or thing obstructing any arrest, boarding, entry, search, seizure, removal or deten- tion which he is empowered to make;
(e)
detain every person found in any premises or place which he is empowered to search until the same has been searched;
detain every person on board any ship, aircraft, vehicle or train which he is empowered to search, and prevent any person from approaching or boarding such ship, aircraft, vehicle or train, until it has been searched.
(3) No female shall be searched under this section except by a female and no person shall be searched under this section in a public place if he objects to being so searched.
53. (1) Any police officer authorized in writing by the Commissioner of Police may exercise the powers conferred on an immigration officer by section 3(1), section 4(3), (5) or (6), section 5(1) or (2), section 10(2), section 16(1)(a), section 20(1)(a) or (3), section 23, section 27(1) or section 52(1).
(2) An authorization given by the Commissioner of Police under subsection (1) may be given to a police officer by name or may be given to any police officer holding such rank or performing such duties as the Commissioner may specify, and may extent to all the powers specified in subsection (1) or to such of those powers as the Commissioner may specify.
(3) The Commissioner of Police may, after consultation with the Director of Immigration, give such directions as the Director may specify to police officers authorized under this section to exercise any of the powers of an immigration officer.
(4) A police officer shall, in the exercise of any powers which he is authorized under this section to exercise, comply with any directions given by the Commissioner of Police under subsection (3) in addition to complying with directions given by the Governor under section 47(1).
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Exercise by police officers of certain powers of immigration officer.