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Search of ship without warrant.
Search of place or ship with warrant.
No. 10 of 1916.
TOBACCO.
landing place, wharf, warehouse or place adjoining any wharf or used in connexion therewith, or which is being removed from any such ship, islet or other place, or which is being brought into or has recently been brought into the Colony by land-
(a) may be examined and searched by any revenue officer, and may be detained until any person in charge thereof shall have opened the same to admit of such examination and search, and in default of such opening may be removed by such officer to a police station;
(b) may be broken open by the orders of any European revenue or 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.
43. Any revenue or police officer, having reasonable ground for believing that there is any tobacco in any ship in contravention of this Ordinance (such ship not being or having the status of a ship of war) may proceed without warrant on board such ship and search for such tobacco and may seize any such tobacco so found and shall take the same, together with the person in whose possession it may be found, to a police station in order that he may be brought before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
44.-(1) Where 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 or having the status of a ship of war), there is concealed or deposited any tobacco subject to forfeiture or with respect to which an offence has been committed or is about to be committed against this Ordinance, such justice of the peace may, by his warrant directed to any revenue or police 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 tobacco; and
(b) to arrest any person being in such place or ship, in whose possession such tobacco may be found, or whom such officer may reasonably suspect to have concealed or deposited any such tobacco in such place or ship or thereabout.
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