578 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 12, 1917.
Search.
Forfeiture of bond.
Penalties,
Respon- sibility for acts of partners, agents, and servants.
4.-(1) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or the Captain Superintendent of Police, or the Harbour Mas- ter, or the Head of the Sanitary Department, or any person authorised thereto in writing by any of the said officers, or authorised thereto by any rule made under this Ordinance, may at any hour search any place which either is a boarding house licensed under rules made under this Ordinance or is suspected of being such a boarding house as should be licensed under rules made under this Ordinance.
(2.) Such officer or person may :----
(a) break open any outer or inner door of any
such place;
() forcibly enter any such place and every part
thereof;
(c) remove by force any personal or material
obstruction to any such search;
(d) detain every person found in any such place
until such place has been searched;
(c) seize, remove and detain any thing with respect to which any offence against any rule made under this Ordinance may appear to have been committed or which may appear to be or to contain evidence of any such offence;
(f) search the person and property of any person found in any such place, 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.
(3.) No person shall obstruct any such search.
5. Upon the failure of any condition of any bond prescribed by any rule made under this Ordinance the sum secured by the bond shall be deemed to be a debt due to the Crown and may be recovered in the same manner as Crown rents are recovered upon a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Colonial Treasurer.
6. Every person who contravenes any of the pro- visions of this Ordinance or of any rule made thereunder shall be liable upon summary conviction to the following penalties :-
(a) for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months;
(b) for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
7.-(1.) Wherever any licensee would have been liable under this Ordinance to any pecuniary penalty or forfei- ture for any thing done or omitted if such thing had been done or omitted by him personally, he shall be liable to the same pecuniary penalty or forfeiture if such thing has in fact been done or omitted by his partner, agent, or servant.
(2.) Every person who appears to be employed in or about any boarding house licensed under this Ordi- nance shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a servant of the licensee.
(3.) Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving any such partner, agent, or servant from any penalty or forfeiture to which he would otherwise be liable.
*