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Appointment and duties of revenue and police officers.
24. (1) The Governor may appoint an officer to be Superin- called the Superintendent of Imports and Exports and such tendent and number of Assistant Superintendents as he may think fit. Superin-
(2) An Assistant Superintendent shall have all the powers conferred on the Superintendent by or under this Ordinance.
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tendents.
officers.
25.--(1) The Superintendent may appoint such persons Revenue as he may think fit as revenue officers under this Ordinance, and all revenue officers appointed under any other Ordinance shall have full powers under this Ordinance.
(2) The Superintendent shall have power to cancel at any time any appointment of a revenue officer.
(3) Every revenue officer shall be supplied with a suitable badge of office.
(4) Every revenue officer when acting against any person under this Ordinance shall on demand declare his office and produce his badge of office to the person against whom he is acting.
(5) Every revenue officer shall on demand return to the Superintendent his badge of office, and every person whose appointment as revenue officer has been cancelled shall forthwith return to the Superintendent his badge of office unless he shall have previously returned it to the Super- intendent.
26.—(1) Every police officer shall have the powers of a Fotice revenue officer under this Ordinance.
(2) Every police officer when acting against any person under this Ordinance shall, if not in uniform, on demand declare his office and produce to the person against whom he is acting such badge as the Inspector General of Police may direct police officers to carry when on special service.
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27. The Superintendent of Imports and Exports, the Confirmation Assistant Superintendent of Imports and Exports, and all appoint-. revenue officers, who were appointed under any other ments. ordinance, and who continued to hold office up to the com- mencement of this Ordinance, are hereby confirmed in their respective offices, and shall have all the powers and privileges conferred by this Ordinance upon the holders of their respective offices.
Search, arrest and seizure.
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28.—(1) It shall be lawful for any European revenue Certain officer or European police officer, or for any other public public officer authorised thereto in writing by the Superintendent, may board either generally or for a particular occasion, to board and remain ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) and to remain on board so long as such ship remains in the Colony.
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(2) Any revenue officer authorised thereto in writing by the Superintendent, either generally or for a particular occasion, may search any such ship and may seize remove and detain any thing found in any such ship with respect
on ship.
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