OPIUM.
No. 30 of 1923.
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Provided always that the goods and baggage of any person who claims to be present when they are searched shall not be searched except in his presence.
(2) While revenue officers are conducting a search of persons landing or intending to land from a ship or a search of the goods and baggage of any such persons, no person shall board such ship unless with the permission of a European revenue officer.
(3) Any person who refuses to comply with any lawful demand under this section may be arrested by any public officer without any warrant other than.
30. Any box or other thing (not being passengers' baggage accompanied by the owner) which is being landed or has been recently landed from any ship, or which is in or upon any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war), wharf or warehouse, or which is being removed from any such ship or other place, or which is being brought into or has recently been brought into the Colony by land-
(1) may be examined and searched by any revenue officer or police officer, and may be detained until any person in charge thereof shall have opened the same to admit of such examination and search, or may be removed by such officer to a police station or to the office of the Superintendent;
(2) may be broken open by the orders of any European revenue officer or European police officer to facilitate such examination and search: Provided that any person in charge or possession of such box, chest, package or other article shall be afforded every reasonable facility for being present at such breaking open, examination and search.
baggage.
31.-(1) It shall be lawful for any public officer authorised by the Superintendent in that behalf-
(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 regulation 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;
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924,