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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 7, 1938.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 775.
Hong Kong.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 5 of 1922, on the 28th day of September, 1938.
WHEREAS by section 2 of Ordinance No. 5 of 1922, intituled the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, it is provided among other things that on any occasion which the Governor in Council may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public danger, he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest:
AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council considers that such an occasion of emergency or public danger exists:
NOW THEREFORE by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor in Council makes the following regula- tions:-
REPEAL.
1. The regulations made under section 2 of the Emer- gency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, and published as Govern- ment Notification 621 in the Gazette of 2nd October, 1931, are repealed.
OBSTRUCTION, ARREST AND EXPULSION.
2. No person shall obstruct any person in the exercise of any power conferred on him by any regulation made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922.
3. It shall be lawful for any public officer to arrest any person whom he may suspect of having contravened any regulation made under the Emergency Regulations Ordin- ance, 1922.
4. The Commissioner of Police and any police officer authorized by him, either generally or specially, shall have power to arrest and detain any person who appears to him to have no regular employment in the Colony, and the Commissioner of Police shall have power to order any such person to leave the Colony forthwith. Any order made under this regulation shall be sufficient authority to all police officers and to the master and crew of any ship or the guards and attendants of any train to use within the Colony and the territorial waters thereof such force and restraint as may be necessary to carry out such order.