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(6) authorizing the further retention of the article until such date as may be specified in the order;
and any such order authorizing the destruction of a document may be made so as to extend to all copies of that document which at the time of the making of the order are in, or which subsequently come into, the possession of an executive authority in any part of the Colony.
(3) Without prejudice to the operation of sub-regulation (2) of this regulation, a magistrate upon complaint made in respect of a retained article by an executive authority, may, after giving to the person (if any) claiming, or appearing to the magistrate, to be the owner of the article an opportunity of being heard, make such an order in respect of the article as is authorized by sub- regulation (2) of this regulation.
(4) A magistrate shall not make an order under this regulation unless he is satisfied that it is necessary or expedient. so to do in the public interest.
(5) Where an order is made under this regulation authorizing the further retention of an article, sub-regulation (1) of this regulation shall, in relation to that article, have effect as if the period first mentioned in that sub-regulation were a period ending on the date until which the article is authorized by the order to be retained; and the making by a magistrate of such an order in respect of any article shall not be taken to preclude him or any other magistrate or the Supreme Court from sub- sequently exercising, in relation to that article, any jurisdiction conferred on such court or magistrate by sub-regulation (2) or sub-regulation (3) of this regulation.
(6) Where, in the course of any proceedings for an offence, an order is made under sub-regulation (2) of this re- gulation, the court bearing any appeal in the matter of those proceedings may vary or annul the order.
(7) Where an order is made under sub-regulation (3) of this regulation, any person aggrieved by the order who appeared on the hearing of the application in relation to which the order is made may appeal against the order to the Supreme Court, and for the purposes of this sub-regulation and of the enactments relating to such an appeal, a refusal to make an order shall be deemed to be an order.
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(8) Where an order is made under this regulation authorizing the destruction or disposal of an article, the article shall not be destroyed or disposed of, as the case may be, until the final determination of the proceeding in which the order is made.
of 1932.
(9) Subject to the preceding provisions of this regula- tion, section 43 of the Magistrate Ordinance, 1932, shall apply Ordinance to any article coming into the possession of an executive authority No. 41 which the authority has reasonable ground for believing to be evidence of the commission of an offence against these regulations as it applies to property coming into the possession of the police in the circumstances mentioned in that section, and, in relation to any such article, shail bave effect as if the reference in that section to the police included a reference to an executive authority (whether a police officer or not),
(10) For the purposes of this regulation, any proceedings shall be deemed not to have been finally determined so long as there is pending any appeal in the matter of the proceedings, and an appeal in that matter shall be deemed to be pending during the ordinary time within which such an appeal may be lodged, and if such an appeal is duly lodged, the appeal shall be deemed to be pending until it is decided or withdrawn.
(1) For the purposes of this regulation, any authority, police officer or other person whatsoever having functions in con- nexion with the execution of these regulations shall be deemed to be an executive nuthority.
(12) Nothing in this regulation shall be taken to pre- judice any right to retain property which may exist in law apart from the provisions of this regulation.
88. (1) A competent authority may cause to be served upon Billeting. the occupier of any premises a written notice (hereinafter referred to as "a billeting notice''), requiring the occupier of those premises to furnish therein, until further notice or during such period as may be specified in the billeting notice, according as that notice may direct, accommodation (by way of lodging or food or both, and either with or without attendance, according as the notice may direct) for such number of persons as may be so specified, being either persons in the service of the Crown or other persons in respect of whom the competent authority shall have received the direction of the Governor requiring that such accommodation shall be found for such other persons. Every billeting notice must,