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1913, and that a revenue officer appointed

under any of the Ordinances scheduled to

the 1913 Ordinance and the present amending

Ordinance may not exercise the powers con-

ferred by section 2 of the 1913 Ordinance,

unless he also be, and purport to act as, a

revenue officer appointed under urdinance

No. 9 ot 1911. As some persons appointed

to be revenue officers under the scheduled

Ordinances may not also be revenue officers

ap ointed under Ordinance No. 9 of 1911, it

appears that the power of such officers will

be curtailed in comparison with the powers

of some of their colleagues, which appears

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to be undesirable, and in order to avoid this

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difficulty it appears that the definition of

revenue officer given in the Interpretation

Ordinance, 1911, should be amended.

3.

I am further advised that if as

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stated by the Attorney General the powers

conferred by section 2 of the 1913 Ordinance

exceed the powers conferred by specific

Ordinances, the Courts will probably limit

the powers of the revenue officer to those

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conferred by the several specific

Ordinances rather than pronounce in

favour of wide powers purporting to be

conferred by a general Ordinance, such as

No. 6 of 1913. If this is the case,

I consider that section 2 of Ordinance

No. 6 of 1913 should be amended by

inserting between the words "may" and

"arrest" in line 1 some such words as

"in addition to any powers conferred

by any Ordinance mentioned in the

schedule hereto".

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