Section 183: Power to retain measurements, etc., taken during detention in certain cases

(1)
Where a person suspected of fraudulently evading payment of duty due on any goods, or evading a prohibition in respect thereto, is detained for any period not exceeding 24 hours by an officer in exercise of his powers under section 8 of this Act and proceedings, whether or not a charge is preferred in respect thereof, are thereupon or thereafter compounded under the provisions of this Act, any measurements, photographs, or fingerprint impression taken under the authority of the Police Act during any such detention may be retained and kept in the custody of the police.
[Cap. P19.]
(2)
Accordingly, section 30 (1) of the Police Act shall in any such case be read and construed as if the proviso of that section (which requires in certain cases the disposal of measurements, etc., so taken) had been omitted, so however that measurements, photographs or fingerprint impressions retained under the powers conferred by the foregoing subsection shall not be received in evidence without the consent of the judge or magistrate hearing the case, in any prosecution of a person for an offence thereafter committed otherwise than under this Act.