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(e.) To impose upon the owners, charterers, agents and masters of ships such obligations with regard to manifests and bills of lading and otherwise as the Governor-in-Council may deem necessary for the purpose of carrying this Ordinance into effect and for the purpose of securing compliance generally with its provi- sions ;
(f) To prescribe any other restrictions whatsoever
on the exportation of any article ;
(7.) To prescribe any other conditions whatsoever to he observed in connection with the exporta-
tion of any article.
5. The granting or refusal of any permit or licence shall Issue of be in the absolute discretion of the officer entrusted with permit or the duty of issuing such permit or licence.
licence to be dis- cretionary.
6.-(1.) It shall be lawful for any public officer an- 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 :
(b.) 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 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 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.) Demain every person found in such place or on board such vessel until such place or vessel has been searched.
(3.) No person shall obstruct any detention, arrest, search, seizure, or removal, which is authorised by this Ordinance.
removal and detention.
7. In any proceeding in respect of or involving any Evidence. matter, civil or criminal, arising under or in connection with this Ordinance :-
(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
importation. the arrival of such ship in the waters of the 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.