THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917. 539
2. No other passenger, whose age exceeds, or appears to exceed, fifteen years, coming from any place outside the Malay Peninsula shall land in the Colony unless he produces either such a passport as aforesaid or a certificate of nationality, which has been issued to him not more than two years before his arrival in the Colony by or on behalf of the Government of the country of which he is a subject or a citizen, and which, in the case of a passenger coming from a foreign country, has been issued or endorsed by the British Ambassador or a British Consular Officer in that country, and, in the case, of a passenger coming from any part of the British Dominions, has been issued or endorsed by some public official thereof duly authorized in that behalf. In such certificate the name, nationality and description of the passenger must be stated, and in the endorsement thereon the destination of the passenger, the name of the vessel by which he is travelling and the date of the sailing of such vessel must be stated.
3. Every such passport and certificate of nationality as aforesaid shall have a photograph of the person to whom it relates so affixed as to obviate the possibility of its removal and the substitution of another.
1. Any passenger, who lands or attempts to land or is reasonably suspected of having landed or being about to land in the Colony in contravention of the regulations, may be taken into custody by any port officer or police constable and may be forcibly returned to the vessel from which he landed or may be forcibly prevented from landing.
5. Any passenger who lands or attempts to land in the Colony in contravention of these regulations, and any passenger having so landed who resists arrest or who refuses to return to the vessel from which he landed when ordered so to do by any port officer or police constable, and any person who aids or abets any such passenger in any contravention of these regulations or who know- ingly harbours any such passenger whom he knows or has reasonable grounds for supposing to have acted in contravention of these regulations, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations.
6. Any person who
() forges, alters or tampers with any passport or certificate of nationality, whether issued in the Colony or elsewhere, or any endorsement thereon, or without lawful authority uses or has in his possession any such forged, altered or irregular passport or certificate or any passport or certificate with any such forged, altered or irregular endorsement; or
(b) personates, or falsely represents himself to be or not to be a person to whom a passport or certificate of nationality, whether issued in the Colony or elsewhere, has been duly issued or, with intent to obtain a passport or certificate of nationality or any endorsement thereon, knowingly makes any false statement; or
(c) allows any other person to have possession of any passport or certificate of nationality issued for his use alone, or without lawful authority has in his possession any passport or certificate of nationality issued for the use of some person other than himself,
shall be guilty of an offence against these Regulations.
7. Any person guilty of an offence against these regulations shall be liable on conviction before a Police Court to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months or to a fine not exceeding eight hundred and fifty dollars or to both imprisonment and fine.
S. These Regulations shall not apply to any passenger coming from any place in the Malay Peninsula or to any bonâ fide Chinese or Netherlands Indian labourer, and shall in no way affect the Regulations published as Notification No. 785 and as Notification No. 581 in Gazelles Extraordinary of the 29th June, 1916, and the 12th May, 1917, respectively.*
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9. These Regulations may be cited as the General Passport Regulations, 1917.
These Notifications are printed below as II and III.
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