1834
No. 23 of 1909.
OPIUM.
Not more than five excise officers to enter house.
Excise officers to be searched.
Exhibition of badge by police.
Punishment of excise officer taking bribe, etc.
Arrest without warrant.
Search of ship without warrant.
63. Not more than 5 excise officers shall at the same time enter or be in a house or floor of a house wholly in the occupation of one Chinese family for the purpose of executing a search warrant, and each of them shall be provided with a dark lantern.
64. Excise officers detailed to execute a search warrant shall allow officers to be themselves to be searched by the police before leaving the police station from which they proceed to the search, and also on their way to the place to be searched.
65. Every police officer when acting under this Ordinance, if not in uniform, shall declare his office, and produce to the person against whom he acts such badge as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct police officers to carry when on special service.
66.-(1) Any excise officer who takes any bribe shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 200 dollars, or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 6 months.
(2) Any excise officer who does not, on ceasing to be an excise officer, return to the opium farmer his uniform or accoutrements, badge or licence shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 100 dollars.
Arrests and Seizures.
67.-(1) Any police or excise officer may arrest without warrant any person within the Colony whom he reasonably suspects to be conveying or to have in his possession any opium in contravention of this Ordinance, and may take such person to a police station in order that, if necessary, he may be brought before a Magistrate, to be dealt with according to law.
(2) Every such person and his luggage shall be liable to be searched before he is taken to the police station, but only under the supervision of a European police officer not under the rank of sergeant.
68. Any police or excise officer, having reasonable ground for believing that there is any opium in any ship within the Colony*
* As amended by No. 13 of 1912.
§ As amended by No. 30 of 1911.
† As amended by No. 12 of 1912.