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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