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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 10, 1932.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 361.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 35 of 1923. PASSPORTS.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 2 of the Passports Ordinance, 1923, the Passport Regulations, contained in the Schedule to the said Ordinance as amended by the Regulation published by Government Notification No. 348 in the Gazette of the 22nd June, 1928, are altered and amended by the Governor in Council and shall be as follows:-
Passport Regulations.
1. No person shall enter the Colony unless he has in his possession and brings with him into the Colony a valid passport: Provided that no person shall be convicted of an offence against this regulation if he proves that he had in his possession and brought with him into the Colony some other valid document establishing his nationality and identity and authorising him to travel to and enter the Colony issued or endorsed, in the case of a British subject or British protected person by a competent British Official, and in other cases by an official having authority to issue or endorse such a document in respect of the person in question.
2.--(1) No passport or travel document shall be deemed to be valid unless-
(a) an indication, either in general terms or specific, which is not invalidated by any other endorsement, appears thereon that the passport or travel document is valid for Hong Kong; and
(b) it was issued or renewed to the holder, in the case of a passport by or on behalf of the Government of the state of which he is a subject or citizen and in the case of a travel document by a competent official, not more than five years before his arrival in the Colony and is still within the period of its validity if any such period be stated; and
(c) it has a photograph of the person or persons to whom it relates so affixed as to obviate the possibility of its removal and the substitution of another photograph, but this condition shall not apply in the case of any Pardanashin or Gosha woman; and
(d) in the case of a person who is neither a British subject nor a British protected person, it bears a visa, by a British Consular Officer in a foreign state or by
or by a duly authorised public officer in some part of His Majesty's dominions, which was granted not more than one year before the arrival of such person in the Colony and is still within the period of its validity, and which is either generally or specifically applicable to the journey on which the holder is engaged or which he has completed by his arrival in the Colony; but this condition shall not apply in the case of a person included in any agreement, applicable to the Colony, between His Majesty's Government or the Government of this Colony and any other Government, for the mutual abolition or waiver of visas.
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