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Telecommunication

[1989 Ed.

exceeding 12 months, as the authority specifies, in the event of any contravention by the licensee or the person to whom the permit, permission or consent was granted, as the case may be, of this Ordinance or of any condition to which the licence, permit, permission or consent is subject, and any such licence may be cancelled or suspended at any time by the Governor in Council if he considers that the public interest so requires.

(5) Where any licence, permit, permission or consent granted under this Ordinance is cancelled, withdrawn or suspended, no part of any fee or other sum paid in respect thereof or thereunder shall be refunded.

(6) Nothing in this section applies in respect of a licence granted under Part IIIA. (Added 51 of 1989 s. 4)

35. Power of Authority

(1) The Authority, or any public officer authorized in writing in that behalf by the Authority, may-

(a) arrest any person whom he reasonably suspects of being guilty of an offence under this Ordinance;

(b) subject to subsection (2), enter and search any place, or board and search any vessel (other than a ship of war) or any aircraft (other than a military aircraft) or search any vehicle, in which he reasonably suspects that there is anything liable to seizure under paragraph (c);

(c) seize, remove and detain-

(i) anything in respect of which he reasonably suspects that an offence under this Ordinance has been committed;

(ii) anything that appears to him to be or to be likely to be, or to contain, evidence of an offence under this Ordinance;

(d) enter and inspect the premises at or from which any person manufactures, sells or otherwise deals in apparatus that may be used for telecommunication and require the production to him of any books or documents relating to such apparatus.

(2) Where he is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that there is in any premises used for dwelling purposes anything that is liable to seizure under subsection (1)(c), a magistrate may issue his warrant authorizing such premises to be entered and searched by the Authority or any other public officer, and no premises used for dwelling purposes shall be entered or searched under this Ordinance except pursuant to the warrant of a magistrate issued under this subsection.

(3) The Authority or any public officer may-

(a) break open any outer or inner door of any place that he is empowered or authorized by or under this Ordinance to enter and search;