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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 61.-The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 14th April, 1910:-
Short title and con- struction.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend The Pharmacy Ordin-
ance, 1908.
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 read and construed As one with the Pharmacy Ordinance, 1903, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.
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.
Powera of officer exccuting
warrant.
Process on Sundays.
(.) That any article named and described in the said Schedule to the Principal Ordinance shall be deemed to be a poisou for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(b.) 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 thereunder, 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 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 custody or control such poison may be found, or whom such officer may reasonably suspect to have concealed or deposited any such poison in such place or ship or thereabout.
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; (e.) remove by force any obstruction to such entry search seizure and removal as he is empowered to effect;
(d.) detain every person fonni in such place or on board such ship until such place or ship has been searched;
(e.) seize and detain any such poison found in such
place or ship; und
(f.) seize and detain any such poison found in the possession of any of the persons against whom his warrant has been issued in any place what- ever within the Colony,
5. All informations to be laid, and all warrants to be issued, and all arrests and seizures to be made under this Ordinance may be had or done on Sunday as well as on
any other day
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