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No. 23 of 1917.

BOARDING-HOUSE.

Prohibition of keeping boarding- house with- out licence.

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(b) the registration and licensing of boarding-houses; (c) the suspension and cancellation of such licences; (d) the fixing of fees to be paid in respect of such licences; (e) the management and control of boarding-houses;

(f) the authorization of persons to make searches for the purposes of this Ordinance; and

(g) generally for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance.

(2) Any such rules may refer only to some particular class of boarding-house.

4. No person shall open or keep any place as a boarding- house except under and in accordance with a licence issued under this Ordinance.

5. (1) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the Commis- sioner of Police or the Harbour Master or the Chairman of the Urban Council, or any person authorized thereto in writing by any of the said officers or authorized 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 material 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 anything 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

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.