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6. Section 7 of this Ordinance repeals sections 3 and 35 of the principal Ordinance because the licensing of eating houses is now dealt with under Ordinance No. 1 of 1903: see Ordinance No. 19 of 1928, saction 2 (2), and sectious 2 (6), 25 and 27 of this Ordinance. Eating houses are not allowed to sell intoxicating liquors, and they have therefore no place in a liquors Ordinance.

7. Section 8 of this Ordinance amends section 41 (3) of the principal Ordinance so as to make it subject to the new section 62A which is referred to in paragraph 11 below. Section 8 also corrects a clerical error in section 41 (2) (6) of the principal Ordinance.

8. Section 9 of this Ordinance provides a form of ship to ship removal permit and shortens the period for shipment of liquors to twenty-four hours before the time mentioned in the ship's clearance. This shortening is considered desirable for the purpose of lessening the opportunities of committing offences against this Ordi- nance. The section also cimpowers the Superinten lent to demand the production of shipping documents.

9. Section 10 of this Ordinance repeals section 50 of the principal Ordinance because it is intendel in future to deal by means of regulations with the subject of "breaking' cases in bond for the purpose of exporting portions of the contents.

10. Section 11 of this Orlinance amends section 54 of the principal Ordinance, with a view to preventing as far as possible the improper use of a permit to move liquor from a ship or to remove liquor for exportation.

II. Section 12 of this Ordinance alds two sections to the principal Ordinance. The new section 62 A introduces a new system of charging and collecting the duty on spirits distilled in the Colony. It is based on section 46 of the Spirits Act, 1880, 43 & 44 Vict. c. 24.

It is so technical that any description of the system would prac- tically have to be a quotation of the section.

The new section 62B gives power to distrain for arrears of duty on spirits distilled in the Colony. It is practically a copy of section 48 of the Spirits Act, 1380.

12. Section 13 of this Ordinance repeals section 70 of the principal Ordinance because it is undesirable that the power to search goods or baggage should be limited to cases in which there is definite cause to suspect that such goods or baggage contain dutiable liquors or denatured spirits.

13. Section 14 of this Ordinance amends section 71 of the principal Ordinance so as to confer upon revenue officers, authorized by the Superintendent in that behalf, power to search any ship, not being or having the status of a ship of war, and to seize remove and detain anything found in any such ship with respect to which the revenue officer has reasonable grounds of suspecting that any offence against Ordinance 9 of 1911 has been committed. This power is similar to the power conferred upon revenue officers, so authorized, by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 22 of 1923, section 7, and by the Opium Ordinance, 1923, Ordinance No. 30 of 1923, section 31.

14. Section 15 of this Ordinance repeals section 73 of the principal Ordinance which requires the Superintendent in the case of an unsuccessful search for intoxicating liquors or other articles liable to forfeiture under that Ordinance to repack or cause to be repacked any goods unpacked during such search and to be responsible for damages caused in the course of such repacking. There is no such provision in the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, Ordinance No. 10 of 1916.