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the principal Ordinance because it is undesirable
that the power to search goods or baggage should be
limited to cases in which there is definite cause to
suspect that such goods or baggage contain dutiable
liquors or denatured spirits.
1.
Section 14 of this Ordinance amends section
71 of the principal Ordinance so as to confer upon
revenue officers, authorized by the Superintendent in
that behalf, power to search any ship, not being or
having the status of a ship of war, and to seize
remove and detain anything found in any such ship with
respect to which the revenue officer has reasonable
grounds of suspecting that any offence against the principal Ordinance has been committed.
This power
is similar to the power conferred upon revenue officers,
so authorized, by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923,
Ordinance No. 22 of 1923, section 7, and by the Opium
Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, section 31.
Section 15 of this Ordinance repeals section
15.
73 of the principal Ordinance which required the
Superintendent in the case of an unsuccessful search
for intoxicating liquors or other articles liable to
forfeiture under that Ordinance to repack or cause to
be repacked any goods unpacked during such search and
to be responsible for damages caused in the course of
such repacking. There is no such provision in the
Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.
16. Section 16 of this Ordinance repeals section 76
of the principal Ordinance because the payment of
informers and the disposal of things forfeited are
rather matters for the executive.