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section, such dangerous goods shall, together with the drums, tins, cases or other packages containing the same, be liable to forfeiture, and in addition such person shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and further such person shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars a day for each day after the first day during which such goods are proved to have been in his possession, custody or power or in the possession on his behalf of any servant, agent or warehouse owner.
[(6) and (7), rep. No. 19 of 1922.]
11.—(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer or officer of the Fire Brigade, if authorized by the Commissioner of Police in that behalf-
(a) to search any place in which such officer authorized as aforesaid may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that there may be any thing which under paragraph (c) is liable to seizure;
(b) 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 officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any thing which under paragraph (c) is liable to seizure;
(c) to seize, remove and detain—
(i) any thing with respect to which such officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence against this Ordinance has been committed;
(ii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence.
(2) Such 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 material obstruction to, or any person obstructing, 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
As amended by No. 20 of 1933 [13.10.33] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
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No. 1 of 1873. DANGEROUS GOODS.
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section, such dangerous goods shall, together with the drums, tins, cases or other packages containing the same, be liable to forfeiture, and in addition such person shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, and further such person shall also be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars a day for each day after the first day during which such goods are proved to have been in his possession, custody or power or in the possession on his behalf of any servant, agent or warehouse owner.
[(6) and (7), rep. No. 19 of 1922.]
11.—(1) It shall be lawful for any police officer or officer of the Fire Brigade, if authorized by the Commissioner of Police in that behalf-
(a) to search any place in which such officer authorized as aforesaid may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that there may be any thing which under paragraph (c) is liable to seizure;
(b) 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 officer may have reason to suspect that there may be any thing which under paragraph (c) is liable to seizure;
(c) to seize, remove and detain—
(i) any thing with respect to which such officer may have reasonable grounds for suspecting that any offence against this Ordinance has been committed;
(ii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence.
(2) Such 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 material obstruction to, or any person obstructing, 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
As amended by No. 20 of 1933 [13.10.33] and Law Rev. Ord., 1937.
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