PHARMACY AND POISONS.
No. 9 of 1916.
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(d) against section 17, shall upon summary conviction be liable for a first offence to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months and for any subsequent offence to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) A certificate signed by the Government Analyst shall be conclusive evidence in any proceedings under, and for any purpose in connexion with, this Ordinance of the market value of any poison in respect of which any offence has occurred.
(3) Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from being liable to any other penalty, damages or punishment to which he would have been subject if this Ordinance had not been passed.
Part III.
21. (1) Whenever it appears to any justice of the peace upon the oath of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any place, or on board any ship, not being Schedule A, or having the status of a ship of war, there is concealed or deposited any poison for the time being included in Part III of Schedule A, or any hypodermic syringe or other appliance capable of being used for the injection of any such poison, and that an offence has been committed in respect of such poison or syringe or other appliance, or that any place or any such ship is being kept or used for the injection of any such poison, or that any person has committed an offence against this Ordinance, he may by his warrant directed to any police or revenue officer empower such officer by day or by night,
(a) to enter such place, or to go on board such ship, and there to search for and take possession of any such poison, syringe or appliance in such place, or ship; and
(b) to arrest any person being in such place or ship, in whose possession, custody or control such poison, syringe or appliance may be found, or whom such officer may reasonably suspect to have concealed or deposited any such poison, syringe or appliance in such place or ship or thereabout; and
(c) to arrest any person named or designated in such warrant.
* As amended by No. 8 of 1917 and Law Rev. Ord., 1924.