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Magistrates, etc., may enter house, etc., where unlawful meeting held or books,

accounts, etc. kept and may arrest and

seize persons and property found.

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(e.)

aforesaid upon the terms and to the purposes

thereby prescribed.

For the purpose of the winding-up the Official

Receiver or such other officer shall have all the

powers which are vested in the Official Receiver

by The Bankruptcy Ordinance 1891 for the purpose

of the discovery of the property of a debtor and

the realization thereof, and also all such powers

as are by the law relating to Companies vested in

the Official Liquidator; and all the provisions of

the Bankruptcy Ordinance and of such law, so far as

they relate to the discovery and realization of the

property of a debtor and to the winding-up of a

company, shall mutatis mutandis apply to the wind-

ing-up of the affairs of a Society under this

Ordinance.

(2.) The Governor-in-Council may for the purpose of

enabling a Society to wind up its own affairs suspend the

operation of this section for such period as to him shall

seem expedient.

18.-(1.) It shall be lawful for any Magistrate or Justice

of the Peace to enter, with or without assistance, or to

order any Police Officer or other person in his presence to

enter, with or without assistance, using force in either

case if necessary, into any dwelling-house or other building,

or into any place in which he may have reasonable ground to

believe that a meeting of any unlawful Society, or of persons

who are members of an unlawful Society, is being held, or

that any books, accounts, writings, banners or insignia

belonging to any unlawful Society are concealed, kept or

deposited and to arrest or cause to be arrested all persons

found in such house and to search such house, building or

place, and seize or cause to be seized all books, accounts,

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