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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 10, 1941.
No. 408.
Power of entry,
search and arrest.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
In exercise of the powers conferred by the Emergency Powers (Defence) Acts, 1939 and 1940, as applied to this Colony by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, and the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) (Amendment) Order in Council, 1940, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Governor makes the following regulations-
The Public Officers (Registration of Persons and Immigration
Control) Powers of Search and Arrest Regulations, 1941.
1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Officers (Registration of Persons and Immigration Control) Powers of Search and Arrest Regulations, 1941.
2. The Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1939, is amended by the insertion therein of the following section immediately after section 11-
11A. The Commissioner of Police and any public officer authorized thereto in writing by him, either generally or for a particular occasion, may enter and search any place or vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) and may arrest without warrant any person whom he may reason- ably suspect of having committed, or of attempting to commit, or of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commis- sion of, an offence against any provision of this Ordinance, and shall take any person so arrested to a police station, to be brought before a magistrate and dealt with according to law.
3. Notwithstanding, but without prejudice to, anything in the Immigration Control Ordinance, 1940, any public officer authorized thereto in writing by the Immigration Officer, either generally or for a particular occasion, may enter and search any place or vessel (not being or having the status of a ship of war) and may arrest without warrant any person whom he may reasonably suspect of having committed, or of attempting to commit, or of aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring the commission of, an offence against any provision of the Immigration Control Ordinance, 1940, and shall take any person so arrested to a police station, or first to the office of the Immigration Officer for directions and then to a police station, to be brought before a magistrate and dealt with according to law.
Published by His Excellency's Command.
7th April, 1941.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.