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Dangerous Drugs.

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thing which under paragraph (f) or (g) is liable 5 of 1948, s.2.

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 (f) is liable to seizure; (e) to search the premises of any person carrying on the business of a producer, manufacturer, seller or distributor of any dangerous drug, and to demand the production of, and to inspect, any books or documents relating to dealings in any such drug, and to inspect any stocks of any such drug; (1) 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 deal- ing 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

(ii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any

such offence, transaction or dealing;

(g) to seize, uproot, remove and detain the plants of 1948, s.2.

known as cannabis sativa or papaver somniferum

(the opium poppy).

(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 obstruc- tion to any arrest, detention, search, inspection, seizure, or removal, which he is empowered to make;

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