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(f) to seize, remove and detain—

(i) anything 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 Ordin-

ance;

(iii) any other thing which may appear to such officer likely to be, or to contain, evidence of any such offence, transaction or dealing.

(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;

(d) detain every person found in such place until such place has been searched.

(3) Any authority given by the Postmaster General under this section may be general so as to embrace all the powers referred to in this section, or limited so as to embrace only a portion of those powers, or particular for a particular occasion.

(4) No person shall delay or obstruct any detention, arrest, search, inspection, seizure or removal which is authorized by this Ordinance.

(5) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to order to be forfeited to the Crown any apparatus in respect to which any offence under this Part has been committed whether any person shall have been charged with, or convicted of, such offence or not.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 29th day of June, 1939.

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C. B. BURGESS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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