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Section 30: A Police Officer may -

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(a) detain a person carrying or conveying along a square, street, highway, quay, avenue or other public place an animal, matter or thing which - (i) the Police Officer suspects of having been stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained; or (ii) in respect of which he suspects that a criminal offence has been, is being or is about to be committed; and (b) examine a box, parcel, basket, bundle, or any other package carried or conveyed by that person which he may reasonably suspect to contain an animal, matter or thing; and if that person does not give a satisfactory account of himself and of an animal, matter or thing the examination may discover, arrest that person and cause him to be taken before a Court as soon as practicable to be dealt with according to law.

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