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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.
(2) makes use of any words in any public advertisement purporting that a reward will be given or paid for any property which has been stolen or lost, without seizing or making any inquiry after the person producing such property; or
(3) promises or offers in any such public advertisement to return to any pawnbroker or other person who may have bought or advanced money by way of loan upon any property stolen or lost the money so paid or advanced, or any other sum of money or reward for the return of such property; or
(4) prints or publishes any such advertisement, shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Principals in the second degree and accessories, etc.
abettors.
55. Every person who knowingly and wilfully aids, abets, Accessories counsels, procures or commands the commission of an offence and punishable either on indictment or on summary conviction under this Ordinance shall be liable to be dealt with, indicted, tried and punished as a principal offender.
Apprehension of offenders.
6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50, 8. 35.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 96,
s. 99
warrant,
56.-(1) Any person found committing any offence, Arrest punishable either on indictment or on summary conviction, without against this Ordinance except an offence under section 48 may 6 & 7 Geo. 5, be immediately apprehended without a warrant by any person c. 50, s. 41. and forthwith taken, together with the property, if any, before 24 & 25 a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
(2) Any person to whom any property is offered to be sold, pawned, or delivered, if he has reasonable cause to suspect that any offence has been committed against this Ordin- ance with respect to such property, shall, if in his power, apprehend and forthwith take before a magistrate the person offering the same, together with such property, to be dealt with according to law.
(3) Any constable may take into custody without warrant any person whom he finds lying or loitering in any highway, yard, or other place during the night, and whom he has good cause to suspect of having committed or being about to commit any felony against this Ordinance, and shall take such person as soon as reasonably may be before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
Search warrants.
Vict. c. 96, ss. 103 & 104.
c. 50, s. 42.
57.—(1) If it is made to appear by information on oath Search before a magistrate that there is reasonable cause to believe warrants. that any person has in his custody or possession or on his 6 & 7 Geo. 5, premises any property whatsoever, with respect to which any offence, punishable either on indictment or on summary con- viction, against this Ordinance has been committed, the magis- trate may grant a warrant to search for and seize the same.
(2)(a) Any constable may, if authorised in writing by the Inspector General of Police, enter any house, shop, ware- house, yard, or other premises, and search for and seize any property he believes to have been stolen, and, where any pro- perty is seized in pursuance of this section, the person on whose premises it was at the time of seizure or the person from
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