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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 20, 1918.
Examination
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4.-(1.) Unless otherwise directed by a police officer, every ocean-going anchorages. ship entering the Port shall proceed forthwith to a police examination anchorage
and there anchor for the purpose of a police examination.
River steamers.
Ordinance
No. 19 of 1915.
Penalties,
Ordinance No. 3 of 1890.
Arrest.
Procedure.
Ordinance
No. 3 of
1890.
(2.) Every ocean-going ship upon entering the Port shall fly the Police call flag ("S" in the International Code of Signals) and shall keep the said flag flying until authorised by a police officer to take it down.
(3.) Except with the permission of a police officer, no person shall board or leave any vessel, no boat shall be lowered from any vessel, and no com- munication whatsoever by signals or otherwise shall be held with the shore or with any other vessel from any vessel, which is liable to police examination until the police examination has been concluded.
(4.) Except with the permission of a police officer, no vessel shall work cables or be moved after it has anchored in a police examination anchorage, unless compelled by stress of weather or other circumstances imperilling the safety of the vessel.
(5.) The police examination anchorages shall be the areas notified by the Çolonial Secretary from time to time in the Gazette in that behalf.
5.-(1.) The master of every river steamer which enters the Port shall immediately on arrival furnish to any police officer on demand a list of all passengers who for the time being come within the First Schedule to the Travellers Restriction Ordinance, 1915, specifying what passports, Hongkong police passes, and Macao Government passes each passenger holds.
(2.) He shall also furnish at the same time a list of all non-Chinese members of the crew.
(3.) He shall also detain on board any person whom he shall suspect of not having satisfactory papers of identity or of being an enemy subject and shall not allow any such person to leave the ship until after the arrival of the police.
(4.) If any person is on board whom he may suspect to be of enemy nationality, he shall signal to the police and shall not go alongside any wharf until the police have boarded the ship.
(5.) The master of every such river steamer shall have authority to make all such enquiries as may reasonably be necessary for the purpose of enabling him to comply with this regulation.
(6.) Every person on board any such river steamer shall truthfully answer any enquiries which may be put to him by the master for the purpose of enabling the said master to comply with this regulation, and shall on demand by the said master produce all identity papers which may be in his possession.
6.1.) Every person who commits, or attempts to commit, or procures, aids or abets, or does any act preparatory to the commission of, any act prohi- bited by these regulations, and every person who wilfully or negligently fails to do any act which he is required to do by any of these regulations, shall be guilty of an offence against these regulations and shall be liable upon summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding six hundred dollars.
(2.) When any person is convicted of any such offence and it is made to appear to a magistrate that in consequence of such offence any ammunition was expended by the naval or military authorities, the magistrate may, in addition to or in lieu of imposing any term of imprisonment or fine, order such person to pay to the Crown the value of the ammunition so expended.
(3.) Any such order may be enforced in any manner in which the payment of a fine imposed by a magistrate may be enforced under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
7.-Every person who acts in contravention of any of these regulations or who is reasonably suspected of having so acted may be taken into custody by any police officer or revenue officer or boarding officer of the Harbour Department.
8. Every offence under these regulations may be prosecuted before the Marine Magistrate or before one of the magistrates appointed under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.