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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1910.
HONGKONG.
No. 9 of 1910.
An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy Ordin-
ance, 1908.
LS
F. H. MAY,
Officer Administering the Government.
[4th June, 1910.]
Short title and con- struction.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacy Amend- ment Ordinance, 1910, and it shall be real and construed as one with the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1903, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.
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Interpreta- 2. For the purposes of this Ordinance "Poison tion of term. means any article named or described in Schedule A to the Principal Ordinance which is named or described in the Schedule to this Ordinance. Provided also that it shall be lawful for the Legislative Council at any time by Resolution to declare as follows :-
Search with warrant.
Powers of officer executing
warrant.
(.) That any article named and described in the said Schedule to the Principal Ordinance shall be deemed to be a poison for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(4) That any article named and described in the Schedule to this Ordinance may be removed therefrom.
3. Whenever it appears to any Justice of the Peace upon the oath affirmation or declaration of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any dwell- ing house shop or other building or place or on board any ship not being or having the status of a ship of war within the Colony there is concealed or deposited any poison as defined by section 2 in respect of which an offence has been committed against the Principal Or- dinance or any regulations made thereander or that any person has committed an offence against such Ordinance or regulation, such Justice of the Peace may by his warrant directed to any Police Officer empower such officer by day or by night-
(a.) to enter such dwelling house shop or other building or place or to go on board such ship and there to search for and take possession of any such poison in such dwelling house shop building place or ship; and
(b.) to arrest any person or persons, being in such dwelling house shop or other building or place or ship, in whose possession enstody or control such poison may be found, or whom such officer may reasonably suspect to have concealed or deposited any such poison in such dwelling- house, shop, building, place or ship or there- about; and
(c.) to arrest any person named in such warrant,
4. Such officer may, if it is necessary to do so,~~
(a.) break open any outer or inner door of such dwelling house shop or other building or place and enter thereinto;
(b.) forcibly enter such ship and every part thereof; (c.) remove by force any obstruction to such entry search seizure and removal as he is empowered to effect;
(d.) detain every person found in such dwelling- house shop building or place or on board such ship until such place or ship has been searched ;