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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 7, 1938.
sioner of Police shall be repaid to him before the return by him of the property, effects and things seized, and in default. of payment of such expenses, or any part thereof, within one month from the withdrawal of the order for suppression, the property, effects and things seized shall be sold by him to satisfy such expenses, and he shall apply the net proceeds of sale in the first place in or towards satisfaction of such expenses, in the next place in payment of any rent in respect of which a distress for rent might have been levied, and in the next place he shall refund the balance (if any) to the person entitled thereto.
MAGISTRATES' POWERS RELATING TO POSSESSION, ETC., OF
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS, OFFENSIVE WEAPONS, ETC.
26. Every person who~~
(1) by violence or threats of violence prevents or endea- vours to prevent any other person from doing any act which he is legally entitled to do; or
(2) commits any offence against the provisions of section 18 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1932,
shall be liable upon summary conviction before a magistrate to the penalties provided by section 3 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922.
27. Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of a magistrate that any printing press, machine, tool, instru- ment, type, block, paper, material or thing has in any manner been used or prepared for use for or in connexion with the printing or production of any seditious publication as defined in the Sedition Ordinance, 1938, or any matter the possession of which would be an offence under regulation 22 of these regulations, it shall be lawful for such magistrate, upon the application of the Commissioner of Police or some person authorized by him, to order such printing press, machine, tool, instrument, type, block, paper, material or thing to be forfeited to the Crown, whether any person has been charged or convicted or may hereafter be charged or convicted of any offence in connexion therewith, or not.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
28. It shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize the enrolment of any number of special constables for the pur- poses of these regulations in the manner provided in the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, and the provisions of that Ordinance, with such modifications as may be necessary, shall apply to such enrolment.
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29. Every person who has been enrolled or appointed a special constable or hereafter be enrolled or
may appointed as a special constable, whether voluntarily or otherwise, as from the date of his enrolment or appointment and until such enrolment or appointment shall be cancelled or determined by the Governor or some person authorized by the Governor, shall be deemed to have had and he shall have all the powers, privileges, protection and immunities
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