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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 11, 1941.
(ii) is the subject of a restriction or detention order under regulation 17 or 18:
(b) persons, or any class of persons, who are not British subjects, and without prejudice to the generality of the fore- going, any person who-
(i) is diseased, maimed, blind, idiot, lunatic or decrepit, and without the means of subsistence and who may be hindered by his state from earning a livelihood;
(ii) cannot show that he has in his possession, or that he is physically able to earn, the means of decently sup- porting himself and his dependants if any, or that he is able to obtain such support in this Colony;
(iii) is a professional beggar or vagrant or a person likely to become a charge upon the public or upon any public charitable institution;
(iv) is suffering from a contagious disease which is loath- some or dangerous;
(v) has entered this Colony and, being a person for whom a passport is necessary, was not at the time of such entry in possession of a valid passport, or is in possession of a forged or altered passport or of a passport which does not comply with any regulations in force relating to passports;
(vi) has been deported, banished or expelled from any country or state or has been shipped by the Government authorities of any country or state with a view to his being repatriated;
(vii) is suspected of being likely to promote sedition or to cause a disturbance of public tranquillity;
(viii) cannot show that he has definite employment or that he has a reasonable prospect of obtaining employment in this Colony;
(ix) is a prostitute or a person living on the earnings of prostitution; or
(x) has entered this Colony and at the time of such entry was not in possession of such certificates as were required under any quarantine regulations then in force.
(3) Where an order is made under this regulation, a competent authority may give such directions to
or in respect of any person affected by the order as may be neces- sary to secure compliance with it: any such direction may be given verbally or in writing and may prescribe the times at which and the routes or vessels, aircraft or vehicles by which persons are to leave this Colony and the places outside this Colony to which persons are to go.
(4) A competent authority may, to such extent and subject to such restrictions as it thinks proper, delegate all or any of its functions under this regulation to any specified persons or class of persons.
(5) Without prejudice to any other method of enforce- ment provided in these regulations, an order under this regulation shall be sufficient authority to-
(a) all police officers to arrest and detain any person to whom the order relates for any period not exceeding four- teen days, or such further or extended period as the Gover- nor may in any case determine, pending the removal of such person from this Colony; and