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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S 322.-The following bill is published for general information:—
Short title.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1873,
s. 11 and
substitution
of new section.
Search,
A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 23-14.8.33.—3.]
An Ordinance to amend further the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.
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 Amendment Ordinance, 1933.
.2 Section 11 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, as enacted by Section 2 of the Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1925, is repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor :-
11.-(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer or officer 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:
(b) forcibly enter any such ship and every part thereof: (c) remove by force any material obstruction to, or any person obstructing, 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 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.
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