ORDINANCE No. 22 OF 1887.
Opium (Raw.)
for the first offence, and two thousand for every subsequent offence: and such agent shall also and in like manner if offending be liable to penalties of the like amount.
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Search warrant may
Justice of the Peace.
fied on oath that there is
Officer may take posses-
20. Any Justice of the Peace may, by his warrant directed to any Police officer, not under the rank of a sergeant, empower him by day or by night to enter and search any dwelling house, shop, or other building or place, or any ship not being a man-of-war or ship having such status, lying or being within the waters of the Colony, in any case in which it shall appear to such Justice of the Peace, upon the oath of any person, that there is good and sufficient cause to believe that in any such dwelling house, shop, or other building or place, or on board any such ship is concealed or deposited any opium subject to forfeiture under this Ordinance, or as to which an offence has been committed against any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and to take possession of any such opium found to be concealed, or deposited therein, and of the ship in which the same may be found, and to arrest and take any person, or persons being in such dwelling house, shop, or other building, or place, or on board any such ship, in whose possession, custody, or control any such opium may be found, or whom the said officer may have good and sufficient reason to suspect to have concealed or deposited therein or thereabouts any such opium, and any officer to whom such warrant shall be directed may, in case of obstruction or resistance, break open any outer or inner doors of such dwelling house, shop, or other building, or place, and enter thereinto, and forcibly enter such ship, and every part thereof, and remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search, seizure, and removal as aforesaid, and may detain every person found in such place until the said place shall have been searched, and all informations to be laid and all warrants to be issued, and all arrests and seizures to be made under this Ordinance, may be had or done on a Sunday as well as on any other day.
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found.
Power to break open doors.
May detain persons.
Sundays.
Excise officers,
of.
21. Excise officers duly appointed under the principal Ordinance shall be deemed to be excise officers for the purposes of this Ordinance, and shall have the like powers, duties, rights and liabilities with reference to opium under this Ordinance as they have with reference to prepared opium under the principal Ordinance.
Police or excise officer to arrest
Arrest without warrant.
22. It shall be lawful for any Police or excise officer to arrest without warrant any person within the Colony whom he reasonably