Power of Regis- trar etc. to
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the Gazette, and shall be affixed in a conspicuous manner on any
building occupied by such society and at the nearest police station
of the police district in which such building exists.
(3) Every society against which an order of dissolution is
unde shall thenceforward be decmed to be an unlawful society.
17. The Registrar or an Assistant Registrar or Magistrate my
enter place kept at any time enter into any place which he has reason to believe is as place of mcet- ing.
kept or used by any registered society or any of its members as a
Power of entry
place of meeting or place of business.
by Registrar, etc.
18.
The Registrar or an Assistant Registrar or Magistrate, who
in special cases, has reason to believe that any registered society or any exempted
society is being used for purposes prejudicial to public peace or
welfare or to good order in the Colony, may enter with or without
assistance and using force for that purpose, if necessary, into any
place which he has reason to believe is used as the place of mecting
or place of business of such society, and may search such place and
any person found therein or escaping therefrom for evidence that
such society is being used for such purpose as aforesaid.
Powers of entry and search.
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19. (1) Any officer of police of or above the rank of ins-
pector may, with or without assistance, using force, if necessary,
enter into any dwelling-house or other building, or into any place
in which he has reasonabdound to believe that a meeting of any
unlawful society, or of persons who are members of an unlawful
society, is being hold, or that any books, accounts, writings,
banners, insignia belonging to any unlawful society are conccaled,
kept or deposited, and to arrest or cause to be arrested all persons
found in such house and to surrch such house, building or place,
and scize or cause to be seized all books, accounts, writings,
banners, documents, flags, insignia, arms and other articles which
he has reasonable cause to believe to belong to any unlawful society
or to be in any way connected therewith.
(2) All persons so arrested and all articles so seized
may be detained in custody and brought before a Magistrate to bc