1967-HKRS30-8-57_Part03 — Page 15

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3. (1) For the purpose of preventing the dissemination of any inflammatory poster, any police officer of or above the rank of inspector, with the assistance of such other police officers as may be necessary, may-

(a) enter and search any building or place if he knows or has reason to suspect that there is or may be in the building or place or any part thereof any inflammatory poster:

(b) stop, board and search any vessel or stop and search any vehicle if he knows or has reason to suspect that there is therein any inflammatory poster,

(c) seize, remove and detain or destroy anything which is

or appears to him to be an inflammatory poster; and (d) seize, remove and detain any thing which appears to him to be or to contain, or to be likely to be or to contain. evidence of an offence under these regulations.

(2) Any police officer of or above the rank of inspector, with the assistance of such other police officers or persons as may be necessary, may remove or obliterate from any building, vehicle, tramcar, train, vessel, sign, post or other thing whatsoever or from any place-

(a) any inflammatory poster posted up, stuck, fixed, placed. exhibited or displayed in, on, to or against the same; or (3) any inflammatory matter painted, daubed, drawn, written

or otherwise inscribed in, on or against the same. and for that purpose may enter and search any building or place or stop and board any vehicle, tramcar or vessel.

(3) Any police officer may-

(a) break open any outer or inner door of any building or place that he is empowered by these regulations to enter and search;

(b) remove by force any person or thing obstructing any search, seizure, removal, detention or obliteration that be is empowered by these regulations to make;

(c) remove any person from any vehicle or vessel while any

inflammatory poster is removed or obliterated;

(d) detain any person found in any building or place that he is empowered by these regulations to search until the same has been searched; and

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(e) detain any vessel or vehicle that he is empowered by these regulations to search until the same has been searched and detain any vessel or vehicle umil an inflammatory poster has been removed or obliterated therefrom.

4 (1) Any person who-

(a) posts up any inflammatory poster in, on or against any buikling, vehicle, tramcar, train, vessel, sign, post or other thing whatsoever or in or on any place whatsoever; (b) sticks or fixes any inflammatory poster in, on, to or against any building, vehicle, tramcar, train, vessel, sign, post or other thing whatsoever or in or on any place whatsoever;

(c) places any inflammatory poster in, on or against any building, vehicle, tramcar, train, vessel, sign, post or other thing whatsoever or in or on any place whatsoever; (d) displays or exhibits an inflammatory poster, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

(2) Any person who paints, daubs, draws, writes or otherwise inscribes in, on or against any building, vehicle, tramcar, train, vessel, sign, post or other thing whatsoever or in or on any place whatsoever any inflammatory matter shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

5. Any person who has in his possession, custody or control any inflammatory poster shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

6. The owner, occupier and person in charge of any build- ing or place or any part of any building or place, and the owner of any vehicle, tramcar or vessel, in, on, to or against which any inflammatory poster is to his knowledge posted up, stuck, fixed, placed, exhibited or displayed or in or on which any inflammatory matter is to his knowledge painted, daubed, drawn, written or otherwise inscribed shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years unless he shows to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he removed or obliterated the inflammatory poster or inflammatory matter as soon as practicable or that he took all practicable steps to prevent the same from being posted up, stuck, fixed, placed, exhibited, displayed, painted, daubed,

Posting up. etc. of inflammatory poster.

Possession of inflammatory poster.

Liability of

owner, Dccupier, etc. of building, and owner of vehicle or vessel.