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Rh of the amendment describing briefly the changes therein shall be published as soon as practicable in such manner as will secure adequate publicity for the amended declaration.

Tickets sellers to inform of statutory conditions of entry

23.—(1) If any person who sells tickets to an event has reasonable grounds for believing that the event may be declared a special event, the person shall take reasonable steps to tell a person, before the person buys tickets to the event, that statutory conditions of entry may apply to the event.

(2) If an event has been declared a special event under section 21, the person who sells tickets to the event must take reasonable steps to tell a person, before the person buys tickets to the event, the statutory conditions of entry that apply to the event.

Inspection of personal property, etc., as condition of entry

24.—(1) This section shall apply only if the notification under section 22(2) relating to the special event to be held at a special event area states that it is a condition of entry to the special event area that an entrant to the area must, if asked by a police officer or an approved person, permit an inspection to be made of the entrant’s personal property.

(2) Subject to subsection (3), a police officer or an approved person may ask the entrant to do one or more of the following:
 * (a) allow the police officer or approved person to inspect the entrant’s personal property;
 * (b) remove one or more garments worn by the entrant as specified by the police officer or approved person and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect the garments;
 * (c) remove all articles from the entrant’s clothing and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect them;
 * (d) open an article for inspection and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect it;
 * (e) open a vehicle or a part of it for inspection and allow the police officer or approved person to inspect it;