CO129-522-7 Liquor Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-12-1929 - 27-12-1929 — Page 16

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17.

Sections 17 and 18 of this Ordinance amend

sections 79 and 80 of the principal Ordinance for the reason given in paragraph 2 (a) above.

18.

Section 19 of this Ordinance repeals section

81 of the principal Ordinance, which empowers the

Governor to stop proceedings and to order restitution

of articles forfeited, as being unusual and unnecessary.

There is no such provision in the Tobacco Ordinance,

1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.

19. The new section 87 of the principal Ordinance,

enacted by section 20 of this Ordinance, makes it

necessary for every person to give correct details

of any particulars, returns, etc,, which he supplies under the Ordinance, at his peril of being guilty of

an offence unless he can prove both absence of knowledge

of the incorrectness and absence of negligence conducing

to it. The former section 87 laid on the prosecution

the onus of proving guilty knowledge.

20.

Section 21 of this Ordinance inserts a new

section based on section 48 of the Tobacco Ordinance,

1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916, which gives eewer to the

Superintendent, and to certain specially authorised

revenue officers, power to obtain information in certain

cases. This new section, section 87A, is more

restricted than the section in the Tobacco Ordinance

in two respects. In the first place, the power is confined

to the Superintendent and to particular revenue officers

authorised in writing by the Superintendent, whereas

the section in the Tobacco Ordinance gives the power

to all revenue officers. In the second place, a proviso

makes it clear that the section will not confer any power

of questioning any person who has been charged under

the principal Ordinance, or on whose case the

Superintendent has decided to prosecute under the