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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 10, 1928.
Regulations.
Persons not subject to this Ordinance.
Power of exemption.
Unregistered persons not to act or be employed as watchmen.
Discipline.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the following purposes :--
(a) fixing the wages and other sums payable by the employers of police watchmen, and the appro- priation of portions of such wages and other sums for such objects as the Governor in Council shall think fit;
() making and altering grades and ranks of police
watchmen ;
(e) regulating the conditions of employment and
service of police watchmen ;
(d) providing for the discipline and control of
police watchmen ;
(e) imposing duties and obligations on employers
of watchmen ;
(f) prescribing fees ;
(g) generally for carrying out the provisions of this
Ordinance.
(2) All reguintions made under this Ordinance shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof beld after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done there- under, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
4. The following shall not be subject to this Ordi-
nance :-
(a) public officers;
(4) members of His Majesty's regular Naval or
Military Forces, or of any Auxiliary Force;
(c) persons employed by the Admiralty or War
Department; and
(d) watchmen of Chinese race, unless allowed by the Captain Superintendent of Police to regis- ter themselves in the Watchmen's Register.
5. The Captain Superintendent of Police may at any time by writing under his hand exempt any watchmau or class of watchmen, or any employer, from any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made thereunder.
6. Subject to the provisions of section 4, no person shall perform or continue to perform any of the duties of a watchman, unless he is registered in the Watchmen's Register either as a police watchman or as a private watchman, and no person shall knowingly employ or con- tinue to employ any unregistered person as a watchman or to perform any of the duties of a watchman.
7.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superinten- dent of Police to order that any police watchman, other than ship's guards, who is found guilty by him of neglect of duty, disobedience to orders, or other misconduct, shall be punished either-
(a) by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, in which case, if the fine is not paid, the Captain Superintendent of Police shall have power to deduct such fine from any moneys then or thereafter in his hands payable to such watch- man, or
(b) by any number of extra or defaulters drills not
exceeding seven for any one offence, or
(e) by removal from the Watchmen's Register.
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