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Dutiable Commodities
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(3) If in pursuance of this section any member of the Customs and Excise Service, having demanded admission into any premises and declared his name and business at any entrance thereof, is not immediately admitted, he and any person acting in his aid may break into and forcibly enter the premises.
11A. Books and documents
(1) Any book or document kept in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be kept in a legible form or in a non-legible form capable of being reproduced in a legible form.
(2) If any book or document is kept otherwise than in a legible form, any power conferred by this Ordinance to require the production of such book or document, to remove and detain it for the purpose of examination, to examine it or to take copies of it shall be construed as including power to require production of it, to remove it and to detain it for the purpose of examination, to examine or to take copies of a reproduction of the book or document or of the relevant part of it in a legible form.
(Added 66 of 1986 s. 10)
12. Seizure without warrant
Any member of the Customs and Excise Service may without warrant----
(a) seize, remove and detain any goods to which this Ordinance applies and in respect of which he finds or has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been committed, or that the goods are otherwise liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance; (Amended 3 of 1970 s. 36)
(b) stop and board any ship, aircraft, train or vehicle and search the same and every part thereof, and may remain thereon as long as it remains in Hong Kong.
13. Ships failing to bring to
The master of any ship not exceeding 250 tons gross tonnage in the waters of Hong Kong who shall refuse to stop and receive any member of the Customs and Excise Service on board such ship or who shall refuse or neglect, to bring his ship to when hailed by a member of the Customs and Excise Service in charge of any ship employed in the service of the Government of Hong Kong having displayed the customary flag or having exhibited or made a recognition signal shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of $5,000 in addition to any other penalty to which he may be liable under the provisions of this Ordinance.
(Amended 3 of 1970 s. 8) [cf. 1952 c. 44 s. 78 U.K.]
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