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Report
on an Ordinance intituled An Ordinance to con-
solidate and amend the law relating to the
powers of arrest by revenue officers.
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This Ordinance was introduced in order to carry out in part the instructions contained in the Secretary of State's despatch of the 26th October, 1916. The rest of those in-
structions are being carried out by the introduction of an Ordinance which amends the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911.
The main object of the present Ordinance is to make it clear that the general powers of arrest which were conferred on revenue officers by Ordinance No. 6 of 1913, and which were re-conferred upon them by this Ordinance, are to be in addi- tion to those conferred by any other enactment.
The other criticism directed against Ordinances Nos.6
of 1913 and No. 11 of 1916 was that on account of the defini-
tion of revenue officer in the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911,
the powers conferred by Ordinances Nos. 6 of 1913 and No.11
of 1916 would be possessed only by revenue officers appointed
under the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911. This point
is dealt with in the present Ordinance by defining revenue officer as meaning every person appointed to act as a revenue officer under the provisions of any enactment for the time
being included in the first schedule.
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As Ordinance No. 6 of 1913 was short and had already been amended once, it was thought more convenient to repeal it and
the amending Ordinanace and to reenact the necessary provisions
in a fresh Ordinance.