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Chapter: | 109
 | Title: | DUTIABLE COMMODITIES ORDINANCE | Gazette Number: | L.N. 255 of 2001 |
| Section: | 11A | Heading: | Books and documents, etc. in non-legible form | Version Date: | 10/01/2002 |
(1) Any book or document kept in pursuance of this Ordinance shall be kept in a legible form or in a non-legible form capable of being reproduced in a legible form.
(2) If any licence, permit, book or other document was issued or is kept otherwise than in a legible form, any power conferred by this Ordinance to require the production of such licence, permit, book or other document, to remove and detain it for the purpose of examination, to examine it or to take copies of it shall be construed as including power to require production of it, to remove it and to detain it for the purpose of examination, to examine or to take copies of a reproduction of the licence, permit, book or other document or of the relevant part of it in a legible form. (Amended 19 of 2001 s. 8)
(3) Without affecting the generality of subsection (2), where any premises or place have been entered under section 11(1)(a), a power conferred by this Ordinance-
(a) to require the production of any licence, permit, book or other document shall be construed as including the power to require that any information of a kind specified in subsection (4) and relating to such licence, permit, book or other document be produced in the premises or place in a legible form;
(b) to inspect, remove and detain for the purposes of examination, or to examine and copy, any licence, permit, book or other document shall be construed as including the power-
(i) to require that any information of a kind specified in subsection (4) and relating to such licence, permit, book or other document be produced in a form in which it can be taken away and in which it is either legible or capable of being retrieved on a computer; and
(ii) to take away the material so produced. (Added 19 of 2001 s. 8)
(4) The information specified for the purposes of subsection (3) is information that is-
(a) stored in the form of an electronic record in or accessible from the premises or place entered under section 11(1)(a); or
(b) contained in any device found in the premises or place entered under section 11(1)(a) and that is capable of being retrieved in the form of an electronic record. (Added 19 of 2001 s. 8)
(Added 66 of 1986 s. 10)