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(e) to search the premises of any person carrying on the business of a producer, manufacturer, seller or distributor of any drug to which this Ordinance applies, and to demand the production of, and to inspect, any books or documents relating to dealings in any such drug, and to inspect any stocks of any such drug; and
(f) to seize, remove and detain—
(i) any thing with respect to which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence against this Ordinance has been committed;
(ii) any book or other document which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting to relate to, or to be connected directly or indirectly with, any transaction or dealing which was, or any intended transaction or dealing which would if carried out be, an offence against this Ordinance, or, in the case of a transaction or dealing carried out or intended to be carried out in any place outside the Colony, an offence against the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place; or
(iii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence, transaction or dealing.
(2) Such public officer may---
(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any such
place;
(b) forcibly enter any such ship and every part thereof; (c) remove by force any personal or material obstruction to any arrest, detention, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which he is empowered to make;
(d) detain every person found in such place until such place or ship has been searched; and
(e) detain every such ship, and every person on board such ship, and prevent every person from approaching or boarding such ship, until such ship has been searched.
(3) Any authority given by the Superintendent under this section may be given to an individual or to a class, and may be--
(a) general, so as to embrace all the powers referred to in this section, or
(b) limited, so as to embrace only a portion of those powers, or
(c) particular, for a particular occasion.
(4) No person shall delay or obstruct any detention, arrest, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which is authorised by this Ordinance.
8.--(1) No person shall send by post any drug to which this Ordinance applies except under a licence from the Superintendent and in accordance with the conditions of such licence.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General to detain and open any postal article which he may suspect to contain any drug to which this Ordinance applies or anything which would be liable to seizure under section 7 (1) (f).
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