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(ii) any book or other document which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting to relate to, or to be connected directly or indirectly with, any transaction or dealing which was, or any intended transaction or dealing which would if carried out be, an offence against this Ordin-
ance;
(iii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence, transaction or dealing.
(2) Such public officer may-
(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any such place;
(b) forcibly enter any such ship and every part thereof;
(c) remove by force any personal or material obstrue- tion to any arrest, detention, search, inspection, seizure or removal which he is empowered to make;
(d) detain every person found in such place until such place has been searched.
(3) Any authority given by the Postmaster General under this section may be general so as to embrace all the powers referred to in this section, or limited so as to embrace only a portion of those powers, or particular for a particular
occasion.
(4) No person shall delay or obstruct any detention, arrest, search, inspection. seizure or removal which is authorized by this Ordinance.
(5) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order to be forfeited to the Crown any apparatus in respect to which any offence under this Part has been committed whether any person shall have been charged with, or convicted of, such offence or not.
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Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of this Bill is to substitute for section 31 of the Telecommunication Ordinance, 1936, a new section, the first four sub-sections of which follow generally the lines of section 13 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, No. 35 of 1935, with a fifth sub-section re-enacting sub-section (2) of section 31 of the Telecommunication Ordinance.
2. It has been found by experience that the swifter means of effecting searches, seizures and arrests which the substituted provisions will permit are as necessary for the due enforcement of the Telecommunication Ordinance as they are in the case of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance especially where illicit apparatus is in question.
C. G. ALABASTER,
May, 1939.
Attorney General.