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Power to enter under warrant

Cap. 109, s. 7 · Revised Edition 2020

(2) In any case under this section the onus of proving such permission shall be upon the person alleging the same. 7. (1) Any magistrate or justice of the peace upon information, duly made on oath, that there is reason to suspect that any place is being kept or used as a common gaming house, may, by warrant under his hand, authorize any police officer with such assistance and by such force as may be necessary, by night or by day to enter such place, and to search it and all persons found therein, and to take into custody all persons, and to seize all instruments and appliances for gambling, and all moneys and securities or token for money found therein or in the possession of any person escaping therefrom. (2) All such instruments and appliances for gambling shall be destroyed, and all such moneys or securities for moneys shall be paid into the Consolidated Revenue Fund. (3) Every such warrant shall be as nearly as is material in the form contained in the Schedule to this Act or to the like effect.
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