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[Subsidiary]
Power to obtain information.
False statements.
Identification of persons in custody.
In force,
G.N.A. 182/50.
CAP. 241]
Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
[1967 Ed.
identified
which he can be identified to such member of Her Majesty's regular forces, or local naval, military or air force, corps or reserve, or any police officer; and if he shall fail so to do he shall be guilty of an offence.
97. (1) Any person shall, on being directed by or on behalf of a competent authority so to do, furnish or produce to such authority or person as may be specified in the direction, any such information or article in his possession as may be so specified, being information or an article which the person giving the direction considers to be necessary or expedient in the public interest to obtain or examine, and if any person contravenes any such direction, he shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) A competent authority, any person authorized by him in that behalf, and any person having the custody of an article produced for examination in accordance with the provision of paragraph (1), may for the purposes of such examination open any vessel, box, crate, wrapper or other container in which the article may be:
Provided that, where practicable, a container so opened shall be closed again after such examination and a mark shall be affixed thereto denoting that it has been opened for examination.
98. If any person-
(a) under any of the provisions of these regulations, or any order made thereunder, makes any statement, or furnishes any information, recklessly or without belief in its truth;
(b) makes such a statement as aforesaid in any account, declaration, estimate, return or other document which he is required by any order made under any of these regulations to make;
(c) in any application for a licence, permit or authorization required by any of these regulations or any order made thereunder, makes such a statement or furnishes any such information as aforesaid, or describes any article or goods incorrectly, insufficiently or in such a manner as to conceal or disguise the true nature or purpose thereof;
or
(d) in any receipt which he is required by or under any of these regulations or any order made thereunder to give for money, makes such a statement as aforesaid,
he shall be guilty of an offence against that regulation.
99. Any person in custody on suspicion of having committed an offence against these regulations, and any person convicted of an offence against these regulations, may, without prejudice to any other powers in that behalf, be photographed, measured, and examined, and may have his fingers and thumb prints taken,
Discontinued
by L.N.43/69
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