THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.
(4) Any person who without lawful authority transmits any telegram at any place in this Colony or on any vessel or aircraft within the territorial waters thereof unless such telegram has first been passed for transmission by the censor is guilty of an offence against these regulations.
munications.
6.—(1) The Governor may make provision by order for Postal com- securing that postal packets of any such description as may be specified in the order shall not be despatched by post from this Colony to destinations outside this Colony, except in accordance with the order; and in particular, but without prejudice to the generality of the preceding provisions of this paragraph, any such order may, in relation to any description of postal packets, direet that no postal packet of that descrip- tion shall be so despatched as aforesaid otherwise than under the authority of a permit granted by such authority or person as may be specified in the order.
(2) The Governor may make provision by order for securing that, subject to any exemptions for which provision may be made by the order, and except in accordance with such conditions as may be contained therein, no document, pictorial representation or photograph or other article what- soever recording information shall be sent or conveyed from this Colony to any destination outside this Colony otherwise than by post, or conveyed into this Colony otherwise than by post.
No person shall have any article in his possession for the purpose of sending or conveying it in contravention of an order made under this paragraph.
(3) Any person who is about to embark on any vessel or aircraft at any place in this Colony for the purpose of leaving this Colony, or lands from any vessel or aircraft at any place on coming to this Colony, (which person is hereafter in this paragraph referred to as "the traveller ") shall, if requested so to do by an authorized officer--
(a) declare whether or not the traveller has with him any such article as is mentioned in paragraph (2) of this Regulation;
(b) produce any such article as aforesaid which he has with him;
and an authorized officer, and any person acting under his directions, may examine or search any article which the traveller has with him, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he is conveying or has in his possession any article in contravention of paragraph (2) of this regulation, and, if the authorized officer has reasonable ground for suspecting that the traveller has any article about his person in contra- vention of that paragraph, search him, and may seize any article produced as aforesaid or found upon such examina- tion or search as aforesaid, being an article as to which the authorized officer has reasonable ground for suspecting that it is being sent or conveyed in contravention of the said paragraph or is in the traveller's possession in contravention of that paragraph:
Provided that no female shall be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a female.
(4) Where, at any place in this Colony, any person is on any occasion found in circumstances in which it is reason- able to suppose that on that occasion he has communicated,
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