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(2) If when so required by any such officer, constable or member the person in charge of any such vehicle or vessel refuses to stop or to permit the vehicle or vessel to be searched, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of £100.

164.—(1) Where there are reasonable grounds to suspect that any person to whom this section applies is carrying any article—
 * (a) which is chargeable with any duty which has not been paid or secured; or
 * (b) with respect to the importation or exportation of which any prohibition or restriction is for the time being in force under or by virtue of any enactment,

any officer or any person acting under the directions of an officer may, subject to subsections (2) and (3) below, search him and any article he has with him.

(2) A person who is to be searched in pursuance of this section may require to be taken before a justice of the peace or a superior of the officer or other person concerned, and the justice or superior shall consider the grounds for suspicion and direct accordingly whether or not the search is to take place.

(3) No woman or girl shall be searched in pursuance of this. section except by a woman.

(4) This section applies to the following persons, namely―
 * (a) any person who is on board or has landed from any ship or aircraft;
 * (b) any person entering or about to leave the United Kingdom;
 * (c) any person within the dock area of a port;
 * (d) any person at a customs and excise airport;
 * (e) any person in, entering or leaving any approved wharf or transit shed which is not in a port;

in Northern Ireland, any person travelling from or to any place which is on or beyond the boundary.

165. Subject to any directions of the Treasury as to amount, the Commissioners may at their discretion pay rewards in respect of any service which appears to them to merit reward rendered to them by any person in relation to any assigned matter.

166.—(1) If any person requests an officer or a person appointed by the Commissioners to transact any business relating to an assigned matter with him on behalf of another person, the officer or person so appointed may refuse to transact that business with him unless written authority from that other person is produced in such form as the Commissioners may direct.