Lrewarp

IsLaNnDs.

Power to
board vessel,
etc,

Trial of per-
sons brought

before Magis-

trate under
sections 17
and 18,

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12 Predial Larceny (Prevention) No. 6 of 1954

(4) lf a police officer fails or is for any reason
whatsoever unable to arrest any person mentioned
in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (3) of
this section, a Magistrate or Justice of the Peace
may issue a warrant for the arrest of sucli person,
or a Magistrate may issue a summons requiring
such person to appear before the District
Magistrate at a time and place to be mentioned
in the summons,

18. (1) Any police officer may go on board
any vessel in any harbour, bay or roadstead and
remain on board the vessel for such reasonable
time as he deems expedient. If he has reasonable
grounds to suspect that there is on board the
vessel any predial produce stolen or unlawfully
obtained, he may search, with any assistants, any
and every part of the vessel, and, after demand and
refusal of the keys break open any receptacle.
Upon discovery of any predial produce which he
may reasonably suspect to have been stolen or
unlawfully obtained, the police officer may tike’
such produce and the person in whose possession
it is found before a Magistrate.

(2) A police officer may pursue and detain
any person in the act of conveying away from any
vessel ‘any praedial produce which such police
officer may reasonably suspect to have been stolen
or unlawfully obtained, whether that person has
landed or not, together with any pradial produce
so conveyed away or found in his possession.

19. A Magistrate may call upon any person
brought or appearing before him under the provi-
sions of section 17 or section 18 to give an account
to the satisfaction of such Magistrate—

(a) by what lawful means any predial
produce reasonably suspected to have been
stolen or unlawfully obtained came to be in
the house, store, yard, place or vessel or on
the land where such produce was found; or

(6) that he was not privy to the placing
of such priedial produce in such house, store,
yard, place or vessel or on such land, knowing