2400
Issue of
permit or licence to be discretionary.
Forfeiture of bond.
*
Forfeiture of deposit.
Arrest, search, seizure,
detention.
No. 32 of 1915.
IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION.
5. The granting or refusal of any permit or licence shall be in the absolute discretion of the officer entrusted with the duty of issuing such permit or licence and such officer may impose any condition whatsoever on the granting of any permit or licence.
6.--(1) Upon the failure of any condition of any bond required as a condition on the granting of any permit or any licence issued under this Ordinance, the sum secured by the bond shall be deemed to be a debt due to the Crown and may be recovered in the same manner as Crown rents are recovered upon a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Treasurer.
(2) The recovery of any such sum shall not relieve any person from any other penalty to which he may be liable under this or any other Ordinance.
7.-(1) Upon the breach of any condition of any permit or any licence issued under this Ordinance, any deposit required as a condition on the granting of such permit or licence shall upon application to a magistrate be declared by him to be forfeited to the Crown.
(2) The forfeiture of any such deposit shall not relieve any person from any other penalty to which he may be liable under this or any other Ordinance.
8.-(1) It shall be lawful for any public officer authorised by the Superintendent of Imports and Exports in writing in removal, and that behalf either generally or for a particular occasion-
(a) to arrest and bring before a magistrate any person whom such public officer may have reason to suspect of having contravened any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any Order in Council made thereunder;
(b) to search the person and property and effects of any person whom it may be lawful for such public officer to arrest: Provided that no female person shall be searched except by a female, and provided that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to be so searched;
(c) to search any place or vessel (not being a ship of war) in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything-
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.