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DUTIABLE COMMODITIES.

No. 36 of 1931.

1943

Arrest and Beizure

26. Any revenue officer may without warrant- (1) arrest any person whom he finds, or has reasonable without cause to suspect of, committing or attempting to commit any offence against this Ordinance;

(2) seize, remove and detain any goods to which this Ordinance applies and in respect of which he finds or has reasonable cause to suspect that an offence against this Ordinance has been committed or that the goods are otherwise liable to forfeiture under this Ordinance;

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(3) board any ship, aircraft, train or vehicle and search the same and every part thereof, and may remain thereon as long as it remains in this Colony.

warrant.

Search of place or ship with warrant or authority

27.-(1) Where it appears to any magistrate upon the oath of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that in any place or any premises there are concealed or deposited any goods subject to forfeiture under this Ordinance, or with respect author or by to which an offence has been committed or is about to

be police committed against this Ordinance, the magistrate may, by his warrant directed to any revenue or police officer, empower such officer by day or by night-

(a) to enter the place or the premises named in the warrant and there to search for and seize, remove and detain any such goods; and

(b) to arrest any person being in such place or in such premises in whose possession such goods may be found, or whom such officer may reasonably suspect of having concealed or deposited any such goods there or thereabout.

(2) Such officer may, if necessary—

(a) break open any outer or inner door of the place or the premises and enter thereinto;

(b) forcibly enter the place or the premises and every part thereof;

(c) remove by force any obstruction to such entry, search, seizure and removal as he is empowered to effect;

(d) detain every person found in such place or such premises, and prevent every person from approaching entering the same, until the search is complete;

or

officer not below the

rank of sergeant.

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