CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929 — Page 15

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the principal Ordinance because it is undesirable

that the power to search goods or baggage should be

limited to cases in which there is definite cause to

suspect that such goods or baggage contain dutiable

liquors or denatured spirits.

1.

Section 14 of this Ordinance amends section

71 of the principal Ordinance so as to confer upon

revenue officers, authorized by the Superintendent in

that behalf, power to search any ship, not being or

having the status of a ship of war, and to seize

remove and detain anything found in any such ship with

respect to which the revenue officer has reasonable

grounds of suspecting that any offence against the principal Ordinance has been committed.

This power

is similar to the power conferred upon revenue officers,

so authorized, by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923,

Ordinance No. 22 of 1923, section 7, and by the Opium

Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, section 31.

Section 15 of this Ordinance repeals section

15.

73 of the principal Ordinance which required the

Superintendent in the case of an unsuccessful search

for intoxicating liquors or other articles liable to

forfeiture under that Ordinance to repack or cause to

be repacked any goods unpacked during such search and

to be responsible for damages caused in the course of

such repacking. There is no such provision in the

Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.

16. Section 16 of this Ordinance repeals section 76

of the principal Ordinance because the payment of

informers and the disposal of things forfeited are

rather matters for the executive.