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[ 22 OF 1887. ] 973
OPIUM ( Raw ) .
cause to believe that in any such dielling house, shop, or other
building or place, or on board any such ship is concealed or
deposited any opium subject to forfeiture under this ordinance,
or as to which an offence has been committed against any of When satis
theprovisions of this ordinance, and to take possession of any that there is
such opium found to be concealed , or deposited therein , and of good cause.
the ship in which the same may be found, and to arrest and officermay
take any person, or persons being in such dwelling house, shop, sion of articles
or other building, or place, or on board any such ship, in whose found .
possession , custody, or control any such opium may be found,
or whom the said officer may have good and sufficient reason to
suspect to have concealed or deposited therein or thereabouts
any such opium , and any officer to whom such warrant shall
be directed may, in case of obstructionor resistance, break open bre
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any outer or inner doors of such dwelling house, shop, or other doors.
building, or place, and enter thereinto, and forcibly enter such
ship, and every part thereof, and remove by force any obstruc
tion to such entry, search, seizure, and removal as aforesaid ,
and may detain every person found in such place until the said Maydetain
place shall have been searched, and all informations to be laid persons.
and all warrants to be issued, and all arrests and seizures to be
made under this ordinance, may be had or done on a Sunday Sundays.
as well as on any other day.
21. Excise officers duly appointed under the Prepared Opium Excise
Ordinance, 1891 , shall be deemed to be excise officers for the officers,
appointment
purposes of this ordinance, and shall have the like powers, of.
protection, duties, rights and liabilities with reference to opium 1891.
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under this ordinance as they have with reference to prepared
opium under the said ordinance.
22. It shall be lawful for any Police or excise officer to arrest without
Arrest
without warrant any person within the Colony whom he reason warrant.
ably suspects to be conveying or to have concealed on his person
any opium in contravention of the requirements of this ordi
nance and to take him before a Magistrate to be dealt with
according to law.
23. It shall be lawful for any Police or excise officer, having Searching
reasonable ground for believing that there is opium in any ship ships.[Ibid. )
within the waters of the Colony in contravention of the provis
ions of this ordinance (such ship not being a ship of war or
• vessel having such status) to proceed without warrant on board
such ship, and search for such opium, and seize any so found,
and it shall be lawful for such officer to take the opium so [ Ibid .)
found , together with the person in whose custody, possession
or control it is found, before a Magistrate, to be dealt with
according to law.