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SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, JANUARY 22, 1949.

(e) seize, remove and detain anything which appears to be evidence of any contravention of the law or which it is esirable to detain for further examination or which appears to long to or to be in the possession of or to be under the sole or partial control of any person whom it is lawful for such officer to detain or arrest.

(2) Such officer may-

such place;

(a) break open any outer or inuer door of or in any

(b) forcibly enter any such vessel, aircraft, train or vehicle and every part thereof;

(e) remove by force any person or material obstruc- tion to any arrest, detention, search, seizure or removal which he is empowered to make;

(d) detain every person found in such place or on board such vessel, aircraft, train or vehicle until such place or vessel, aircraft, train or vehicle has been searched.

(3) No person shall obstruct any detention, arrest, search, Immigration seizure or removal which is authorised by this Ordinance.

Officer may release detained

zance with or

14. The Immigration Officer may in the exercise of his person on discretion release a person detained under this Ordinance upon his his entering entering into a recognizance with or without sureties, for a

into a recogni- reasonable amount to appear before the Immigration Officer for without further inquiries at the time and place mentioned in such sureties. recognizance or in the case of the person detained being a person recently arrived in the Colony for the return of such person to the place whence he came. The liberty granted after recognizance shall be subject to such conditions of residence and report as the Immigration Officer thinks fit.

15. The Immigration Officer may by order, notice or otherwise Conditional impose such conditions either general or special in or upon the landing or occasion of or subsequent to any permit granted to an immigrant entry. to enter, whether for the purpose of residence, sojourn or transient visit or for transhipment at a port in the Colony and may at any time vary or add to these conditions as he thinks fit.

16. A master of a vessel may use all reasonable means, Master of including force and restraint, to secure the continued presence on vessel may board of any person who has not been permitted to enter and while detain by such person is so detained he shall be deemed to be in legal custody.

force.

crew.

17. Any person on board a vessel or aircraft who falsely False repre- represents himself to be a member of the crew and any member sentation as of such crew who aids and abets or otherwise connives at such member of a false representation may be arrested without a warrant and shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars.

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