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Any such order shall be sufficient authority to any con- stable to enter (by force, if needful) into the premises and give possession of the same, or any part thereof specified in the order, to the landlord or his agent: Provided that such entry shall not be made at any time except between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Provided also that the powers given by this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any powers conferred by or under any other enactment.
(5) If, within twelve months after service of such notice as is mentioned in sub-section (3), an offence against sub- section (1) is proved to have been committed by the same or any other offender in respect of the same premises or any part of the same premises, the person upon whom service is made (and the landlord or tenant also, if such person be an attorney, agent, rent collector, secretary or manager) shall be guilty of an offence, and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing that the premises were being used again in contravention of sub-section (1).
(6) Every person who, after having been previously convicted of an offence punishable under this section or under section 10, subsequently commits any such offence (whether each of the convictions has been in respect of an offence of the same description or not) shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months, in addition to any punishment to which he may otherwise by law be liable.
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(1) Except as hereinafter mentioned, no informa- Rules as to tion laid under this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in secrecy of any civil or criminal proceeding, and no witness shall be and protec- obliged to disclose the name or address of any informer or to informers. state any matter which might lead to his discovery, and if any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding contain any entry in which any such informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the court or magistrate shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer froin discovery, but no further.
(2) But if, in any proceedings before a magistrate for any offence against any provision of this Ordinance, the magistrate, after full inquiry into the case, believes that the informer wilfully made in his information a material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true, or if, in any other proceeding, the court or magistrate is of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the court or magistrate to require the production of the original information, and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of clause 2 of this Bill is to correct a typographical error, the substitution of "on" for "or", in section 17 (2) (a) of the principal Ordinance, No. 35 of 1935.