Registration of visitors at
hotels.
Powers of detention,
arrest,
search, seizure and removal.
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(3.) Any warrant under this section may be in the form in the schedule hereto.
14.-(1.) It shall be the duty of the keeper of
every hotel, inn, boarding-house, and lodging-house, and of the secretary of every club, to ascertain and enter in a register kept for the purpose the names and nationality of all persons over the age of fourteen years staying at the hotel, inn, board- ing-house, lodging-house, or club, to whom section 10 of this Ordinance may for the time being apply, together with the dates of their arrival and departure, their destinations on departure, and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Captain Superintendent of Police, and if the keeper of an hotel, inn, boarding-house, or lodging-house, or the secretary of a club, fails to do so, or if he makes any entry in any such register which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false, he shall be deemed to be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(2.) The keeper of every hotel, inn, boarding-house, or lodging-house, and the secretary of every club, shall also make to the Captain Superintendent of Police such returns as to the particnlars aforesaid, at such times or intervals, and in such form as the Captain Superintendent of Police may direct, and if such keeper or secretary fails to do so, or makes any false return, he shall be deemed to be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(3.) It shall be the duty of every person who stays at an hotel, iun, boarding-house, lodging-house, or club, to furnish to the keeper or secretary and sign a statement containing such information as such keeper or secretary may require for the purpose of compiling such register as aforesaid, and if any person fails to do so, or gives any false information, he shall be deemed to be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance,
(4.) Every register kept under this section shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to inspection by any officer of police, or by any other person authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police.
(5.) For the purposes of this section the expression "keeper of a lodging-house" shall include any person who for reward receives and other person to lodge with him or in his house, and where any hotel, inn, boarding-house, or lodging-house, is under the management of a manager the expression "keeper" shall in relation thereto include such manager.
15.-(1.) It shall be lawful for any police officer authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police in writing in that behalf, either generally or for a particular occasion :-
(a.) To detain for further enquiries during a period not exceeding four days any person in whose case such police officer may have reason to believe that further enquiry is necessary:
(6.) To arrest and bring before a Magistrate any person whom such police officer may have reason to suspect of having contravened or attempted to contravene any of the provisions of this Ordinance:
(c) To search the person and property and effects of any person whom it may be lawful for such police officer to detain or arrest, or who may arrive in or be about to leave the Colony, pro- vided that no female person shall be searched except by a female, and provided that no person shall be searched in a public place if he objects to be so searched :
(d.) To search any place or vessel (not being a ship of war) in which such police officer may have reason to suspect that there may be anything which may be evidence of any contravention or intended contravention of any of the provisions of this Ordinance, or which may belong to or be in the possession or under the sole or partial control of any person whom it may be lawful for such police officer to detain or arrest:
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