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Further powers of search and seizure.
Surrender of travel document.
Prevention of Bribery
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(b) obstructs or resists any investigating officer in the exercise of the powers of entry and search conferred by subsection (1)(b) or in the exercise of the power to detain conferred by subsection (1)(c), (Amended, 28 of 1980, s. 11)
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year.
(Amended, 9 of 1974, s. 8)
17. (1) If it appears to the Commissioner that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any premises or place, other than an office, registry or other room of or used by a public body, there may be anything which is or contains evidence of the commission of an offence under this Ordinance, he may by warrant directed to an investigating officer empower such officer to enter such premises or place, by force if necessary, and search the same and to detain, subject to subsection (1A), any person found in any such premises or place until such premises or place have or has been searched. (Replaced, 15 of 1976, s. 4. Amended, 28 of 1980, s. 12)
(1A) A person may not be detained under subsection (1) for more than 3 hours after the investigating officer first entered unless, in the meantime, the person so detained is arrested. (Added, 28 of 1980, s. 12)
(2) Without prejudice to any other law relating to entry and search, the chambers of counsel or the office of a solicitor are not subject to entry and search under this section or any warrant issued under this section except in the course of investigating an offence under this Ordinance alleged or suspected to have been committed by that counsel or that solicitor, as the case may be, or by his clerk or any servant employed by him in such chambers or office.
(3) Any person who obstructs or resists the Commissioner or any investigating officer in the exercise of the powers of entry, search and detention under this section shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $20,000 and to imprisonment for 1 year. (Amended, 9 of 1974, s. 9 and 28 of 1980, s. 12)
17A. (1) A magistrate may, on the application ex parte of the Commissioner, by written notice require a person who is the subject of an investigation in respect of an offence alleged or suspected to have been committed by him under this Ordinance to surrender to the Commissioner any travel document in his possession. (Amended, 50 of 1987, s. 9)
(2) A notice under subsection (1) shall be served personally on the person to whom it is addressed.
(3) A person on whom a notice under subsection (1) is served shall comply with such notice forthwith.
(4) If a person on whom a notice under subsection (1) has been served fails to comply with the notice forthwith, he may thereupon be arrested and taken before a magistrate.
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