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Applications For licences and perraits.

Register of requisitions and permits.

Deputy for absent licensee.

Powers of The Preven- Live Service.

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(iv) revoke the licence or permit on proof to his satisfaction of an offence against this Ordinance, whether any person has been convicted of such offence or not;

(c) a list of general bonded warehouses shall be published in the Gazette in January of each year and additions thereto or deletions therefrom shall be similarly published within one month of such addition or deletion becoming necessary.

(2) Any person who is aggrieved by the exercise of the powers conferred by this section by the Director or by any officer deputed by him in that behalf may appeal by way of petition to the Governor in Council.

* Any person requiring a licence or permit or the renewal or any extension, transfer or amendment of a licence or permit shall make application either personally or in writing to an officer authorized to grant the same, as he may direct, and in such form as the Director shall prescribe, and shall furnish such information and evidence relating to the application as may be prescribed by regulations or as the Director may require.

9. Every requisition for a permit and a copy of every permit issued shall be entered in a book or books in the office of the officer authorized to issue the permit, and the absence of a requisition or copy therefrom shall be prima facie evidence that a permit has not been applied for or, as the case may be, that a permit has not been issued.

10. If the holder of a licence for any premises in which datiable goods may be stored or manufactured leaves this Colony for more than forty-eight hours at a time, or is, by reason of any disability, incapable of acting, he, or in the case of disability, his legal representative, shall appoint a responsible person, approved by the Director, to act on his behalf during his absence or disability and shall lodge with the Director a notice of such appointment endorsed or countersigned by the person appointed and during the absence or disability of the licensee the person appointed shall, without prejudice to the responsibility of the liccnsce. have the same duties and liabilitics as the licensee under this Ordinance.

11. (1) Every member of the Preventive Service shall for the purposes of this Ordinance have power to do all or any of the following things-

(a) to enter at all reasonable times, or, if specially authorized in writing by the Commissioner of the Preventive Service for the purposes of this section, at any time, by day and night, and remain as long as he thinks fit upon any premises or place in

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respect of which any person holds a licence under this Ordin- ance and to inspect and examine the premises or place and every part thereof,

(b) to require the production of any licence, permit, and any book or document kept in pursuance of this Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder or any other document which has a bearing on the quantity, origin or nature of any goods to which this Ordinance applies, and to inspect, examine and copy any such books or documents;

(c) to make such examination and inquiry as may be necessary to ascertain whether the provisions of this Ordinance and of any regulations are complied with as respects any goods to which this Ordinance applies;

(d) without payment, to take such samples of any goods to which this Ordinance applies as the Commissioner of the Preventive Service may direct for examination or for ascertaining the duty payable on such goods, and samples so taken for examination or for ascertaining the duty payable may be disposed of as the Commissioner may think fit; and

(e) to exercise such other powers as may be necessary for giving

effect to the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) The holder of every licence or permit issued under this Ordin- ance and his servants or agents shall furnish the means required by a member of the Preventive Service as necessary for any entry, inspec- tion, examination, inquiry or the exercise of his powers under this Ordinance in relation to any goods to which this Ordinance applies and which are or have been in the possession, custody or control of such licensee or permittee.

(3) If in pursuance of this section any member of the Preventive Service, having demanded admission into any premises and declared his name and business at any entrance thereof, is not immediately admitted, he and any person acting in his aid may break into and forcibly enter the premises.

12. Any member of the Preventive Service may without wartant- Seizure without (a) seize, remove and detain any goods to which this Ordinance warrant.

applies and in respect of which he finds or has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance or any regulations made thereunder has been committed, or that the goods are otherwise liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance; (6) stop and board any ship, aircraft, train or vehicle and scarch the same and every part thereof, and may remain thereon as long as it remains in this Colony,