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HONG KONG.
No. 23 of 1939.
I assent.
(L.S.
G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, Governor.
30th June, 1939.
An Ordinance to amend the Telecommunication Ordinance,
1936.
[30th June, 1939.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Telecommunica- Short title. tion Amendment Ordinance, 1939.
2. Section 31 of the Telecommunication Ordinance, Substitution 1936, is repealed and the following section is substituted for Ordin- therefor
ance No. 18 of 1936, s. 31.
31.-(1) It shall be lawful for any public officer autho- Arrest, rized by the Postmaster General in that behalf-
search, inspection, removal and
(a) to arrest and bring before a magistrate any person detention. 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: Provided also that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to be so searched;
(c) to search any place in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything which under paragraph (f) is liable to seizure;
(d) to search and, if necessary, stop and search, any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything which under paragraph (f) is liable to seizure;
(e) to search the premises of any person carrying on the business of a producer, manufacturer, seller or distributor of any apparatus for radiocommunication, and to demand the production of, and to inspect, any books or documents relating to dealings in any such apparatus, and to inspect any stocks of any such apparatus;
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