Amendment of seerlon I4.A
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Authendment of #ction 14B.
Amendment at *ection 14C.
Amendment of
Becton 16,
Section 14A of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by inserting after subsection (1) the following-
"(1A) Where any property specified in a notice under subsection (1) includes any debt or obligation due by a bank or deposit-taking company to the person to whom the notice is given the Commissioner may serve on such bank or deposit- taking company a copy of that notice, which copy notice shall have the effect of directing the bank or deposit-taking company not to pay any money to the person specified in the copy notice without the consent of the Commissioner."; (b) by inserting after subsection (2) the following-
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"(24) Where any property specified in a notice under subsection (1) is immovable property, such notice shall be deemed to be an instrument affecting immovable property and shall be registrable as such in the Land Office under the Land Registration Ordinance in such manner as the Land Officer thinks ft."; and
(2) in subacction (5) by inserting after "subsection (1) the
following-
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"of a bank or deposit-taking company which pays any money to a person specified in a copy of a notice served an it under subsection (1A)".
Section 14B of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting after subsection (3) the following-
"(3A) Where the Commissioner has refused to give his consent under section 14A to a person the subject of a notice under subsection (1) of that section and as a result of that refusal the person is, before the determination of any application under this section against that refusat, unable to meet any contractual liability incurred before the notice was served on him, that person shall, if he is not charged with an offence arising out of the investigation or, having been so charged, is acquitted, be entitled to compensation for any loss sustained by him as a consequence of being unable to meet the contractual liability. (38) Any compensation under subsection (3A) shall be paid from the general revenue.".
19. Section 140 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) by inserting after subsection (3) the following-
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"(3A) Where any property specified in a restraining order is immovable property, auch order shall be deemed to be an instrument affecting land and shall be registrable as such in the Land Office under the Land Registration Ordinance in such manner as the Land Officer thinks AL"; and
(b) in subsection (4) by deleting for a further period of 3 months"
and substituting the following—
"for periods of 3 months at a time".
11. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) in subsection (1)
© by deleting the full stop at the end of paragraph (5) and substituting a semicolon; and
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(ii) by inserting after paragraph (6) the following-
"(c) may, subject to subsection (IA), detain any person fourd in any office, registry or other room which he is em- powered by paragraph (b) to search until such office, registry or other room has been searched.";
(6) by inserting after subsection (1) the following-
(A) A person may not be detained under subsection (IXC) for more than 3 bours after the investigating officer First entered unless, in the meantime, the person so delained is arrested."; and
(c) in subsection (2)8) by inserting after "subsection (16) the
following-
"or in the exercise of the power to detain conferred by subsection (19)".
12. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is amended- -
(a) in subsection (1) by inserting after "search the same" the
following-
"and to detain, subject to subsection (1A), any person found in any such premises or place until such premises or place bave or has been searched":
(8) by inserting after subsection (1) the following-
"(IA) A person may not be detained under subsection (1) for more than 3 hours after the investigating officer first entered unless, in the meantime, the per600 so detained is arrested."; and
(c) in subsection (3) by deleting "powers of entry and search" and
substituting the following-
"powers of entry, search and detention".
Amendment of section 17.
new Do 30A.
13. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 30. Addion ot the following
30A. (1) Save as provided in subsection (2)--
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(a) no information for an offence under this Ordinance shall be admitted in evidence in any civil or criminal proceeding; and
(6) no witness in any civil or criminal proceeding shall
be obliged-
(i) to disclose the name or address of any informer who has given information to the Com- missioner with respect to an offence under this Ordinance or of any person who has assisted the Commissioner in any way with respect to such an offence; or
(ii) to answer any question if the answer thereto would lead, or would tend to lead, to discovery of the name or address of such informer or person, if, in either case, such informer or person is not himself a witness in such proceeding,
and, if any books, documents or papers which are in evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceeding contain an entry in which any such informer or person is