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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 17, 1915.
(2.) The recovery of any such sum shall not relieve any person from any other penalty to which he may be liable under this or any other Ordinance.
7.-(1.) Upon the breach of any condition of any Forfeiture of permit or any licence issued under this Ordinance any deposit.
deposit required as a condition on the granting of such
permit or licence shall upon application to a magistrate be declared by him to be forfeited to the Crown.
(2.) The forfeiture of any such deposit shall not relieve any person from any other penalty to which he may be liable under this or any other Ordinance.
S.-(1.) It shall be lawful for any public officer au- Arrest, thorised by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports in search, writing in that behalf either generally or for a particular seizure, occasion :--
(a.) To arrest and bring before a magistrate any person whom such public officer may have reason to suspect of having contravened any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Order-in-Council made thereunder ;
(5.) To search the person and property and effects of any person whom it may be lawful for such public officer to arrest, provided that no female person shall be searched except by a female, and provided that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to be so searched;
(c.) To search any place or vessel (not being a ship of war) in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any thing (i) with respect to which any offence against the provisions of this. Ordinance or of any Order-in-Council made thereunder may have been committed, or (ii) which may be evidence of the commission of any such offence; (d.) To seize, remove and detain any thing with respect to which any offence against the pro- visions of this Ordinance or of any Order-in- Council made thereunder may appear to have been committed or which may appear to be or to contain evidence of the commission of any such offence including all account books and correspondence.
(2.). Such public officer may :-
(a.) Break open any outer or inner door of or in
any such place;
(b.) Forcibly enter any such vessel and every part
thereof;
(c) Remove by force any personal or material obstruction to any arrest, detention, search. seizure, or removal which he is empowered to make ;
(d.) Detain every person found in such place or on board such vessel until such place or vessel has been searched.
(3.) No person shall obstrnet any detention, arrest. search, seizure, or removal, which is authorised by this Ordinance or by any Order-in-Council made thereunder.
removal, and detention.
9. In any proceeding in respect of or involving any Evidence. matter, civil or criminal, arising under or in connection with this Ordinance or any Order-in-Council made there- under :---
(a.) If any cargo appear on any import manifest Import mani-
furnished by the owners charterers agents or fests to be master of any ship at any time before or after evidence of the arrival of such ship in the waters of the importation. Colony it shall be presumed in favour of the Crown against any other party that such cargo was imported into the Colony on board such ship unless such other party shall prove affir- matively that such cargo was not in fact carried into the Colony on board such
ship.
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fests to be
(b) If any cargo appear on any export manifest, Export mani-
furnished by the owners charterers agents or master of any ship before or after the time evidence of exportation.
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