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Search warrant to enter club

Cap. 312, s. 13 · Revised Edition 2020

(1) If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that, (a) there are reasonable grounds for supposing that any registered club is so managed or carried on as to constitute a ground for striking it off the register; (b) an offence under this Act has been or is being committed in any registered club; or (c) any excisable liquor is supplied or sold, or kept for supply or sale, on the premises of an he may grant a search warrant to any police officer named therein. 20 (2) A search warrant granted under this section shall authorise the police officer named therein to enter the club at any time, if need be by force, and to inspect the premises of the club, to take the names and addresses of any person found therein, and to seize any books and papers relating to the business of the club. (3) Every person found on the premises who refuses to give his name and address when requested by the police officer to do so, or who gives a false name and address, commits an offence and is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
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