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REGULATION 5.--LICENSES.
(1) It shall be lawful for the Minister, by writing under his hand,
to grant a license to any person, firm, or company to engage in any
transaction or series or class of transactions which, but for such
license, would or might amount to a breach of these regulations,
and any such license may, by like writing delivered to the licensee
or to any member of a licensed firm, be at any time withdrawn.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Minister, by a notice published in
the Gazette, generally to permit any transaction or series or class of
transactions to be engaged in which but for such notice would or
might amount to a breach of these regulations, and any such notice
may, by further notice published in the Gazette, be at any time
drawn.
(3) Any license or notice issued under the two last preceding
clauses hereof may be made subject to such limitations as to time
and otherwise and such conditions and restrictions as the Minister
thinks fit to include, and may at any time be modified or withdrawn.
(4) Any person who for the purpose of obtaining any license under
these regulations makes any statement or supplies any information
or produces any document which is false or misleading in any
material particular, or which has not been given by the person by
whom it purports to have been given, or which has been in any way
altered or tampered with, commits an offence against these regulations
unless he proves that he took all reasonable steps to ascertain the
truth of such statement or information or document or to satisfy
himself of the genuineness of such document.
REGULATION 6.--INVESTIGATIONS OF TRADING TRANSACTIONS.
(1) If a Justice of the Peace is satisfied on information on oath
laid on behalf of the Minister that there is reasonable ground for
suspecting that an offence under these regulations has been or is about
to be committed by any person, firm, or company, he may issue a
warrant authorizing any person appointed by the Minister and named
in the warrant to inspect all books and documents belonging to or
under the control of that person, firm, or company, and to require
any person able to give any information with respect to the business
or trade of that person, firm, or company to give that information
and, if accompanied by a constable, to enter and search any premises
used in connection with the business or trade, and to seize any such
books or documents as aforesaid.
(2) Any person who obstructs or attempts to obstruct any person
inspecting or demanding to inspect any books or documents, or, if
accompanied by a constable, entering or demanding to enter or
searching or demanding to search any premises in the execution of
a warrant issued to such person under the last preceding clause hereof,
commits an offence against these regulations.
(3) Any person having the custody of any book or document who
refuses or wilfully neglects to produce it for inspection to any person
to whom a warrant under this regulation has been issued, or who
refuses or wilfully neglects to give any information with respect to
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