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[s. 31 contd.]

No. 30 of 1923.

OPIUM.

(c) to search any place in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any thing which under paragraph (f) is liable to seizure;

(d) to search, and, if necessary to stop and search, any ship (not being or having the status of a ship of war) in which such public officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any thing which under paragraph (ƒ) is liable to seizure;

(e) to search any place which such public officer may have reason to suspect to be an opium divan;

(f) to seize, remove and detain—

(i) any thing with respect to which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence against this Ordinance has been committed;

(ii) any book or other document which such public officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting to relate to, or to be connected directly or indirectly with, any transaction or dealing which was, or any intended transaction or dealing which would if carried out be, an offence against this Ordinance, or, in the case of a transaction or dealing carried out or intended to be carried out in any place outside the Colony, an offence against the provisions of any corresponding law in force in that place; or

(iii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence, transaction or dealing.

(2) Such public officer may-

(a) break open any outer or inner door of or in any such place;

(b) forcibly enter any such ship and every part thereof; (c) remove by force any personal or material obstruction to any arrest, detention, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which he is empowered to make;

(d) detain every person found in such place until such place has been searched; and

(e) detain every such ship, and every person on board such ship, and prevent every person from approaching or boarding such ship, until such ship has been searched.