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Duty of masters, owners and agents of
ships to
furnish
passenger lists.
Amend- ment of
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 29, 1934.
(4) Every register kept under this section shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to inspection by any officer of police, or by any other person authorised by the Inspector General of Police.
(5) For the purposes of this section, "keeper of a lodging-house" includes any person who for reward receives any other person to lodge with him or in his house; and where any hotel, inn, boarding-house, or lodging-house is under the management of a manager, "keeper" in relation thereto includes such manager.
5. It shall be the duty of the master, owner and agent of every ship which arrives within the waters of the Colony, or which departs therefrom, carrying any passenger or passen- gers not being of Chinese race, to furnish in writing to the Inspector General of Police, within forty-eight hours after such arrival or departure as the case may be, a list containing the names of every such passenger. Such list shall be in such form as the Inspector General of Police may prescribe. Every such owner, master or agent who fails to furnish such list, or who furnishes any list which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
6. The Governor in Council may amend in any way whatsoever the Schedule to this Ordinance and may also make and Regula- regulations generally for the purpose of carrying out the
provisions of this Ordinance.
Schedule
tions.
Penalties.
Repeals. Ordinances No. 19 of 1915,
No. 6 of
1916.
7. Every person who acts in contravention of or fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordin- ance or of any regulations made thereunder, and every person who permits or knowingly is a party to such
any contravention or failure, shall be liable upon summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
8. The Travellers Restriction Ordinance, 1915, and the Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1916 are repealed.
Commence- ment,
9. This Ordinance shall come into force on such date as may be fixed by Proclamation of the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 29th day of March, 1934.
R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.