1988 Ed.]
Dangerous Drugs
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Failure to comply with requirement under section 52 and obstruction of authorized officer
53. Any person who-
(a) fails to comply with a requirement of a public officer under section 52(5)(b) or (6)(b); or
(b) obstructs a public officer in the exercise of any power conferred on him by section 52,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
Surrender of travel document
53A. (1) A magistrate may, on the application of the Commissioner of Police or the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, by written notice require a person who is the subject of an investigation in respect of a specified offence alleged or suspected to have been committed by him to surrender to the Commissioner of Police or Commissioner of Customs and Excise any travel document in his possession. (Amended, 40 of 1985, s. 9)
(2) The matter of an application under subsection (1) shall be substantiated by the oath of the applicant.
(3) A notice under subsection (1) shall be served personally on the person to whom it is addressed.
(4) A person on whom a notice under subsection (1) is served shall comply with such notice forthwith.
(5) If a person on whom a notice under subsection (1) has been served fails to comply with the notice forthwith, he may thereupon be arrested and taken before a magistrate.
(6) Where a person is taken before a magistrate under subsection (5), the magistrate shall, unless such person thereupon complies with the notice under subsection (1) or satisfies the magistrate that he does not possess a travel document, by warrant commit him to prison there to be safely kept-
(a) until the expiry of the period of 28 days from the date of his committal to prison as aforesaid; or
(b) until such person complies with the notice under subsection (1) and a magistrate, by order in that behalf, orders and directs the Commissioner of Correctional Services to discharge such person from prison (which order shall be sufficient warrant for the Commissioner of Correctional Services so to do), (Amended, L.N. 30/82)
whichever occurs first.
(7) Upon the surrender of a travel document under this section, the Commissioner of Police or the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, as the case may be, shall issue a receipt identifying the travel document. (Amended, 40 of 1985, s. 9)
1988 Ed.]
Dangerous Drugs
[CAP. 134
45
Failure to comply with requirement under section 52 and obstruction of authorized officer
53. Any person who-
(a) fails to comply with a requirement of a public officer under section
52(5)(b) or (6)(b); or
(b) obstructs a public officer in the exercise of any power conferred on him
by section 52,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of $1,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months.
Surrender of travel document
53A. (1) A magistrate may, on the application of the Commissioner of Police or the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, by written notice require a person who is the subject of an investigation in respect of a specified offence alleged or suspected to have been committed by him to surrender to the Commissioner of Police or Commissioner of Customs and Excise any travel document in his possession. (Amended, 40 of 1985, s. 9)
(2) The matter of an application under subsection (1) shall be substan- tiated by the oath of the applicant.
(3) A notice under subsection (1) shall be served personally on the person to whom it is addressed.
(4) A person on whom a notice under subsection (1) is served shall comply with such notice forthwith.
(5) If a person on whom a notice under subsection (1) has been served fails to comply with the notice forthwith, he may thereupon be arrested and taken before a magistrate.
(6) Where a person is taken before a magistrate under subsection (5), the magistrate shall, unless such person thereupon complies with the notice under subsection (1) or satisfies the magistrate that he does not possess a travel document, by warrant commit him to prison there to be safely kept-
(a) until the expiry of the period of 28 days from the date of his committal
to prison as aforesaid; or
(b) until such person complies with the notice under subsection (1) and a magistrate, by order in that behalf, orders and directs the Commis- sioner of Correctional Services to discharge such person from prison (which order shall be sufficient warrant for the Commissioner of Correctional Services so to do), (Amended, L.N. 30/82)
whichever occurs first.
(7) Upon the surrender of a travel document under this section, the Commissioner of Police or the Commissioner of Customs and Excise, as the case may be, shall issue a receipt identifying the travel document. (Amended, 40 of 1985, s. 9)
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