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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 25, 1938.
No. 901.
Hong Kong.
The Quarantine and Prevention of Disease Ordinance, 1936, Ordinance No. 7 of 1936, section 18.
It is hereby declared by order of His Excellency the Governor in Council that Shanghai (including Woosung) is a place at which an infectious or contagious disease, namely, small-pox, prevails.
T. MEGARRY,
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Clerk of Councils.
24th November, 1938.
No. 902.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1922. (EMERGENCY REGULATIONS).
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 continues to exist:
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 follow- ing regulation, which shall be added as regulation 37 to the regulations made under the said section 2 on 28th September, 1938, and published in the Gazette of 7th October, 1938, as Government Notification 775 and subsequently amended:-
SQUATTERS AND DESTITUTES,
37.-(1) It shall be lawful for any public officer authorized in that behalf by the Commissioner of Police or the Director of Medical Services, and for any Health Officer, using such force and with such assistance as may be necessary, to take possession of, demolish and remove any structure erected without lawful authority on unleased Crown land.
(2) Such officer may, with the consent of any destitute person whom he finds in or near any such structure demolished under this regulation, or on any unleased Crown land or in any public place, take such person or cause such person to be taken to any camp established under regulation 34 in which there is accommodation for such person, and such person may be réceived into such camp and thereupon all the provisions of regulation 34 shall apply to such person as if he were, and notwithstanding that he be not, an alien.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
24th November, 1938.