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(Cap. 138.)
Licences, etc. to be at the discretion of Director. Dangerous Drugs.
(b) to carry on at the shop the business of retailing, dispensing, or compounding any such drug; subject to the power for the Director to withdraw the authorization in the case of a person who has been convicted of an offence against this Ordinance, and who cannot, in the opinion of the Director, properly be allowed to carry on the business of manufacturing or selling or distributing, as the case may be, any such drug.
(3) Nothing in any regulation made under this section shall be taken to authorize the sale, or the keeping of an open shop for the retailing, dispensing, or compounding of, poisons by any person who is not qualified in that behalf under, or otherwise than in accordance with, the provisions of the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, or to be in derogation of the provisions for prohibiting, restricting, or regulating the sale of poisons therein contained.
12. (1) The granting or refusal of any licence, certificate or authorization under this Ordinance, and the revocation of any such licence, certificate or authorization, shall lie in the absolute discretion of the Director, who may impose any conditions that he may think fit upon the granting of any such licence, certificate or authorization. 5, c. 46, s. 12.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Director to charge for any such licence, certificate or authorization such fee as the Governor in Council may by regulation prescribe.
13. (1) It shall be lawful for any public officer authorized by the Director 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: also that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to being so searched;
(c) to search any place in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any
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