Explosives. (Ch. 30. No. 4.

respect to the conveyance, loading, unloading, and importa-
tion of an explosive are complied with, enter, inspect,
and examine at any time, and as well on Sundays as on
other days, the wharf, vehicle, or vessel of any carrier
or other person who conveys goods for hire, or of the
occupier of any factory, warehouse, or store, or of the
importer of any explosive, on or in which wharf, vehicle,
or vessel he has reasonable cause to suppose an explosive
to be for the purpose or in course of conveyance, but
so as not unnecessarily to obstruct the work or business
of any such carrier, person, occupier, or importer.

(2) Any such officer, if he finds any offence being
committed against this Ordinance, or against any rules or
regulations or, order of the Governor made under this
Ordinance, on or in any such wharf, vehicle, or vessel, or
on any public wharf, may seize and detain or remove the
said vehicle, or vessel, or the explosive, in such manner
and with such precautions as may appear to him to be
necessary to prevent any danger to the public, and may
seize and detain the said explosive, as if it were liable
to forfeiture.

(3) Any such officer, and any officer of Customs, or
constable, who has reasonable cause to believe that any
offence against this Ordinance, or against any rules or
regulations or order of the Governor made under this
Ordinance, is being committed in respect of any vehicle
or any vessel conveying, loading, or unloading any explosive,
and that the case is one of emergency, and that the delay
in obtaining a warrant will be likely to endanger life, may
stop and enter, inspect, and examine such vehicle or
vessel, and, by detention or removal thereof or otherwise
take such precautions as may be reasonably necessary
for preventing such danger, in like manner as if such
explosive was liable to forfeiture.

(4) Every such officer or constable shall, for all the
purposes of this section, have the same powers and be in
the same position as if he were authorised by a search
warrant granted under this Ordinance, and every person
who fails to admit or obstructs such officer or constable
shall be liable to the same penalty as a person who fails
to admit or obstructs an officer or constable so authorised
as aforesaid.

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