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(3) Every person who delays or obstructs any detention, arrest, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which is authorised by this Ordinance, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(4) Any authority given by the Inspector General of Police under this section may be given to an individual or to a class, and may be (1) general, so as to embrace all the powers referred to in this section, or (2) limited, so as to embrace only a portion of those powers, or (3) particular. for a particular occasion.
3. The Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, is amended New by the addition of the following section after section 18 thereof :--
18A.-(1) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder or who fails to observe any condition or restriction imposed by or under this Ordinance shall be deemed to commit an offence against this Ordinance.
(2) Every person who commits or attempts to commit any offence against this Ordinance for which no special penalty is provided shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
Section 18A to Ordinance No. 1 of 1873.
Offences and penalties generally.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 2 of this Ordinance repeals and in effect re-enacts section 11 of the principal Ordinance, but extends the power of search therein contained to officers of the Fire Brigade acting under the authority of the Inspector General of Police, it having been found necessary to transfer certain duties of inspection to such officers.
2. The principal Ordinance as first enacted contained a power to make bye-laws for regulating the landing of dangerous goods and the mooring of ships on which such goods were carried. This power was later amended, and finally replaced (in the Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordin- ance, 1922) by the power to make regulations which appears in the present section 5 (1) of the principal Ordinance. The section (section 7) however, governing penalties for breach of the regulations, retains substantially the form in which it was originally enacted, and provides for a penalty only in cases where goods are illegally moved, stored, shipped, landed, etc. Consequently no penalty is recoverable for a breach of regulations made, or of conditions of a licence issued, under section 5 (1) unless the breach also falls within section 7.
3. Section 3 of this Ordinance provides for a penalty for breach of the principal Ordinance, a regulation or condition Af a Frence in all cases where such provision has not already been made.
August, 1933.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.