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Penalties.
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No. 19 of 1915.
TRAVELLERS RESTRICTION.
except by a female, and provided that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to be so searched;
(d) to search any place or vessel (not being a ship of war) in which such police officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything—
(i) which may be evidence of any contravention or intended contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or
(ii) which may belong to or be in the possession or under the sole or partial control of any person whom it may be lawful for such police officer to detain or arrest; and
(e) to seize, remove and detain anything which may appear to be evidence of any contravention of the law, or which it may be desirable to detain for further examination, or which may appear to belong to or to be in the possession of or to be under the sole or partial control of any person whom it may be lawful for such police officer to detain or arrest.
(2) Such police officer may—
(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any such place;
(b) forcibly enter any such vessel and every part thereof;
(c) remove by force any personal or material obstruction to any arrest, detention, search, seizure, or removal which he is empowered to make;
(d) detain every person found in such place or on board such vessel until such place or vessel has been searched.
(3) No person shall obstruct any detention, arrest, search, seizure, or removal, which is authorised by this Ordinance.
16. Every person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and every person who permits or knowingly is a party to any such contravention or failure, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable upon conviction either summarily or on indictment, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months and to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.