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Power to seize things in possession of idle and disorderly person, etc
Cap. 98, s. 12 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) A police officer, peace officer, or other person apprehending any person suspected of committing an offence in respect of which he is liable to be deemed an idle and disorderly person or a rogue and vagabond or an incorrigible rogue, may take any vehicle, beast or goods in the possession 33 or use of such person, and convey the same as well as such person before a magistrate.
(2) Every magistrate by whom any person is adjudged to be an idle and disorderly person, or a rogue and vagabond or an incorrigible rogue, may or- der that such offender be searched,
and that his trunks, boxes, bundles, parcels or packages be examined in the presence of the said magistrate and of the said offender, and also that any vehicle which was found in his possession or use be searched in the offender’s presence.
First Schedule.
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