THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 13, 1933.
HONG KONG.
No. 20 of 1933.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
13th October, 1933.
An Ordinance to amend further the Dangerous Goods
Ordinance, 1873.
[13th October, 1933.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dangerous Goods Short title: Amendment Ordinance, 1933
Ordinance
2. Section 11 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, Repeal of as enacted by Section 2 of the Dangerous Goods Amendment No. of Ordinance, 1925, is repealed, and the following section is 1873, substituted therefor :-
s. 11 and substitution of new section.
11.-(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer or officer Search of the Fire Brigade, if authorised by the Inspector General of Police in that behalf-
(a) to search any place in which such officer authorised as aforesaid may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that there may be any thing which under paragraph (c) is liable to seizure;
(b) to search, and if necessary to stop and search, any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in which such officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any thing which under paragraph (c) is liable to seizure;
(c) to seize, remove and detain—
(i) any thing with respect to which such officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence against this Ordinance has been committed;
(ii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence.
(2) Such officer may-
(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any such place;
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