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4. (1) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs, or the Search. Captain Superintendent of Police, or the Harbour Mas- ter, or the lead of the Sanitary Department, or any person authorised thereto in writing by any of the said officers, or authorised thereto by any rule made under this Ordinance, may at any hour search any place which either is a boarding house licensed under rules made under this Ordinance or is suspected of being such a boarding house as should be licensed under rules made under this Ordinance.

(2.) Such officer or person may :

(a) break open any outer or inner door of any

such place;

(b) forcibly enter any such place and every part

thereof;

(c) remove by force any personal or materia

obstruction to any such search;

(d) detain every person found in any such place

until such place has been searched;

(e) seize, remove and detain any thing with respect to which any offence against any rule made under this Ordinance may appear to have been committed or which may appear to be or to contain evidence of any such offence;

(f) search the person and property of any person found in any such place, provided 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.

(3.) No person shall obstruct any such search.

5. Upon the failure of any condition of any bond Forfeiture prescribed by any rule made under this Ordinance the of bond. sum secured by the bond shall be deemed to be a debt due to the Crown and may be recovered in the same manner as Crown rents are recovered upon a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Colonial Treasurer.

6. Every person who contravenes any of the pro- Penalties, visions of this Ordinance or of any rule made thereunder shall be liable upon summary conviction to the following penalties:-

(a) for a first offence, to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any

term not exceeding six months;

(b) for a second or subsequent offence, to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.

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7.--(1.) Wherever any licensee would have been liable Respon- under this Ordinance to any pecuniary penalty or forfei- sibility for ture for any thing done or omitted if such thing had been done or omitted by him personally, he shall be servants. liable to the same pecuniary penalty or forfeiture if such thing has in fact been done or omitted by some agent or servant of such licensee.

(2.) Every person who appears to be employed in or about any boarding house licensed under this Ordi- nance shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a servant of the licensee.

(3.) Nothing in this section shall be construed as relieving any such agent or servant from any penalty or forfeiture to which he would otherwise be liable.