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in virtue of their office may exercise in, upon and in respect of such place all the powers mentioned in section 41 in as full and ample a manner as if they were empowered to do so by warrant issued under the said section.
Arrest with-
43.-(1) Any revenue officer may arrest without out warrant. Warrant any person found committing, or attempting to commit, or employing, aiding, or assisting any person to commit, any offence against this Ordinance.
Obstruction
or search.
(2) Every person so arrested shall, together with any such light oils found in his possession, be taken into custody or to the office of the Superintendent for directions.
44. No person shall obstruct the Superintendent of inspection or any revenue or police officer in the carrying out of any inspection or search authorised by or under this Ordinance or in the execution of any duty imposed or power conferred by or under this Ordinance."
Obligation
45. Every person required by a revenue officer to to give
give any information on any subject which it is the information. officer's duty to inquire into under this Ordinance,
and which it is in his power to give, shall be legally. bound to give such information.
Power of Superin- tendent to take samples.
Extracts
Miscellaneous.
46.—(1) Every person applying for a permit under this Ordinance shall allow the Superintendent or any person authorised by him in writing either generally or for a particular occasion to take samples of the light oils to which the application relates.
(2) Every person licensed under this Ordinance and the holder of every permit under this Ordinance shall allow the Superintendent Or any other person authorised by him in writing either generally or for a particular occasion to take samples of any light oils in his possession, custody or control.
(8) The Superintendent or the person authorised by him as hereinbefore provided may select the case or receptacle from which the sample is to be taken.
47. Ju all proceedings under this Ordinance and from records in all proceedings for the recovery of any duty on to be prind light oils, the production of any copies of or extracts facie
from the records of the Superintendent purporting to evidence.
be certified by the Superintendent shall be primá facie evidence of the facts stated or appearing therein or to be inferred therefrom.
Magistrate may employ an analyst to report on technical points.
48. The magistrate hearing any charge under this Ordinance may employ an analyst or other skilled person to report on any technical point, and may order the payment of the fee of such analyst by the defendant in addition to any other penalty, and such fee shall be recoverable in the same way as a penalty imposed under this Ordinance is recoverable.
Certificate of 49. At the hearing of any charge under this Government Ordinance, the production of a certificate purporting or Monopoly to be signed by the Government or Monopoly Analyst Analyst to be shall be sufficient evidence of the facts therein stated,
sufficient evidence.
unless the defendant requires that the Analyst should be called as a witness, but, if the defendant shall require the Analyst to be called, the magistrate may order him in addition to any other penalty to pay a fee of twenty-five dollars for the attendance of the Analyst, such fee to be recoverable in the same way as a penalty imposed under this Ordinance