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Police officers: badge.
Confirmation of certain appointments.
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No. 4 of 1914.
Certain public officers may board and remain on ship.
Search of persons entering Colony and of their goods and baggage.
No. 30 of 1923.
OPIUM.
26. Every police officer when acting against any person under this Ordinance shall, if not in uniform, on demand declare his office and produce to the person against whom he is acting such badge as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct police officers to carry when on special service.
27. The Superintendent of Imports and Exports, the Assistant Superintendent of Imports and Exports, and all revenue officers, who were appointed under the Opium Ordinance, 1914, and who continued to hold office up to the commencement of this Ordinance, are hereby confirmed in their respective offices, and shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by this Ordinance upon the holders of their respective offices.
Search, arrest and seizure.
28. It shall be lawful for any European revenue officer or European police officer, or for any other public officer authorised thereto in writing by the Superintendent, either generally or for a particular occasion, to board any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) and to remain on board so long as such ship remains in the Colony.
29.-(1) Every person landing from any ship or entering the Colony by land accompanied by any goods or baggage shall--
(a) on demand by any revenue officer or police officer either permit his person and his goods and baggage to be searched by such officer or, together with such goods and baggage, accompany such officer to a police station or to the office of the Superintendent and there permit his person and his goods and baggage to be searched by any revenue officer or police officer in the presence and under the supervision of any European revenue officer or European police officer or other police officer not below the rank of sergeant;
(b) on demand by any European revenue officer or European police officer permit his person and his goods and baggage to be searched by such European revenue officer or European police officer or by any revenue or police officer in the presence and under the supervision of such European police officer or European revenue officer:
* The Opium Ordinance, 1914, was repealed by this Ordinance.
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