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shall be guilty of a further offence under section 40 and shall

be liable on conviction to be punished accordingly.

Limitation of time for prosecution

of summary uffences.

42. A complaint may be made or an information laid in respect

of an offence under this Ordinance punishable only on summary

conviction within two years from the time when the matter of such

complaint or information respectively arose.

Forfeiture

of vehicles and ships.

43. (1) Where the captain of a ship not exceeding two

hundred and fifty gross tons is guilty of an offence under section

33(4) or section 34, the ship shall be liable to forfeiture,

whether or not the captain is convicted in respect of such offence.

of. Import & expert Orclentine, 1920.

(2) Any vehicle which has been used in the commission of

(a) an offence under section 33(1); or

(b) an offence under section 90(1) of the Criminal Procedure

Ordinance where the arrestable offence which a person

has committed is an offence under section 33(1) cf

this Ordinance,

shall be liable to forfeiture, whether or not any person has been

convicted in respect of such offence.

(3) Within twenty-one days of the seizure of any vehicle or

ship which appears to him to be liable to forfeiture under sub-

section (1) or subsection (2), the Director may serve notice of

such seizure on the owner of the vehicle or ship :

Provided that where there is more than one owner of a

vehicle or ship it shall be sufficient for the purposes of this

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