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if he has reason to believe that any evidence of the commission of an offence against this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder is likely to be found on such premises or individual or in such vessel or vehicle, and may seize any evidence so found.

(2) A female person shall be searched under this section only by another female person.

7. Any person whom the Commissioner of Registration, or the Immigration Officer for the Colony, or any deputy immigration officer, or any immigration control officer so authorized by the Immigration Officer reasonably believes has committed an offence against this Ordinance or the regulations made thereunder may be arrested without warrant—
 * (a) in the absence of the Immigration Officer for the Colony, or a police officer, or deputy immigration officer, or such duly authorized immigration control officer, by the Commissioner of Registration who shall either forthwith give such person into the custody of any police officer, or into the custody of any deputy immigration officer or immigration control officer, when the provisions of paragraph (b) shall apply, or forthwith take him to the nearest police station and shall there hand him over to the custody of a police officer and thereupon the provisions of section 47 of the Police Force Ordinance shall apply; or
 * (b) by the Immigration Officer for the Colony, or a deputy immigration officer, or such duly authorized immigration control officer, who shall forthwith take him to the nearest police station and shall there hand him over to the custody of a police officer and thereupon the provisions of section 47 the Police Force Ordinance shall apply.

8. (1) The Governor in Council may make such regulations as may be necessary for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1) such regulations may prescribe or provide for—
 * (a) the manner in which and places at which application for registration shall be made;
 * (b) the information and documents to be furnished for the purposes of registration;
 * (c) the taking and recording of photographs and fingerprints of persons requiring to be registered and the destruction of such photographs and the facsimiles of all such fingerprints on the expiration of this Ordinance;