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Power of seizure.
Offences and penalties.
Forfeiture.
CAP. 114]
Miscellaneous Licences
[1984 Ed.
6A. (1) A police officer who has entered any place in pursuance of a warrant issued under section 6 may seize and remove from that place any machine or device together with its contents and all related or ancillary components including any cabinet or other casing in which it is housed if he has reason to suspect that such machine or device may be liable to forfeiture under section 7A, and may detain the machine or device and the contents, components, cabinet and casing until all proceedings, including any appeal, have been completed or a decision is taken not to proceed.
(2) No claim or action shall lie against the Crown or any public officer in respect of the seizure, removal or detention of any machine or device under subsection (1).
7. Any person who-
(Added, 11 of 1982, s. 4)
(a) contravenes the provisions of section 4; or
(b) fails to comply with any condition in a licence issued hereunder; or
(c) in furnishing any particulars which he is required by regulation made hereunder to furnish, furnishes any information which he knows or has reason to believe to be false in any material particular or by reason of the omission of any material particular or furnishes any information without any belief in the truth or accuracy of the information supplied,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable----
(i) in the case of an offence under paragraph (a), to a fine of $50,000 or to imprisonment for 6 months; or
(ii) in the case of an offence under paragraph (b) or (c), to a fine of $10,000 or to imprisonment for 6 months.
(Replaced, 15 of 1952, s. 5. Amended, 11 of 1982, s. 5)
7A. The court shall, on the conviction of any person of an offence under section 7(a) relating to an amusement game centre, order the forfeiture of any machine or device together with its contents and all related or ancillary components including any cabinet or other casing in which it is housed (if any) seized by a police officer under section 6A, being a machine or device of a type specified in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of the definition of "amusement game centre" or the Third Schedule which was installed or placed in the amusement game centre for the purposes of amusement, recreation or entertainment, unless the owner of the machine or device satisfies the court that there is special and exceptional reason not to order forfeiture, such as that the machine or device had been stolen and the theft reported to the police as soon as practicable; but ownership of itself of a machine or device by a person other than the person convicted or financial hardship to any person shall not be special and exceptional reason.
(Added, 11 of 1982, s. 6)