ORDINANCE No. 22 OF 1887. 2175
Opium (Raw.)
for the first offence, and two thousand for every subsequent offence : and
such agent shall also and in like manner if offending be liable to penalties
of the like amount.
20. Any Justice of the Peace may, by his warrant directed to any Search
warrant
Police officer, not under the rank of a sergeant, empower him by day be issued by
Justice of the
or by night to enter and search any dwelling house, shop , or other build Peace.
ing or place, or any ship not being a man -of- war or ship having such
status , lying or being within the waters of the Colony, in any case in
which it shall appear to such Justice of the Peace , upon the oath of any
person, that there is good and sufficient cause to believe that in any such
dwelling house, shop , or other building or place, or on board any such
ship is concealed or deposited any opium subject to forfeiture under this
Ordinance, or as to which an offence has been committed against any of When satis
fied on oath
the provisions of this Ordinance, and to take possession of any such that there is
good cause.
opium found to be concealed , or deposited therein , and of the ship in
which the same may be found, and to arrest and take any person, or Officer may
take posses
persons being in such dwelling house, shop , or other building, or place, sion ofarticles
found.
or on board any such ship, in whose possession , custody, or control any
such opium may be found , or whom the said officer may have good and
sufficient reason to suspect to have concealed or deposited therein or
thereabouts any such opium, and any officer to whom such warrant shall
be directed may, in case of obstruction or resistance, break open any Power to
break open
outer or inner doors of such dwelling house, shop, or other building, or doors.
place, and enter thereinto , and forcibly enter such ship, and every part
thereof, and remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search , seizure ,
and removal as aforesaid , and may detain every person found in such May detain
persons.
place until the said place shall have been searched , and all informations
to be laid and all warrants to be issued, and all arrests and seizures to be
made under this Ordinance, may be had or done on a Sunday as well as Sundays.
on any other day.
21. Excise officers duly appointed under the principal Ordinance Excise
officers,
shall be deemed to be excise officers for the purposes of this Ordinance, appointment
of.
and shall have the like powers , duties , rights and liabilities with reference
to opium under this Ordinance as they have with reference to prepared
opium under the principal Ordinance.
22. It shall be lawful for any Police or excise officer to arrest Arrest
without
without warrant any person within the Colony whom he reasonably warrant.