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General provisions For sate guarding information
Communica - tion with enemy agents.
Photo- graphy, etc.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.
(a) to the possession of---
(i) any code or cipher the use of which is approved by the Governor, or
(ii) any document conveying or recording informatiet by means of such a code or cipher, being a doctanett which specifies in clear the code or cipher used, or
(b) to the use, in accordance with conditions imperso the Governor, of any such code or cipher as is mention sub-paragraph () of this paragraph,
and shall not restrict the doing of anything by any servant of His Majesty or police constable acting in the course of his
duty as such.
13. No person shall, in any mann likely to the defence of the realm or the vient prosce
war
or
(1) obtain.
projudies of the
(2) record, communicate to any other person or publish,
(3) have in his possession any document containing, or other record whatsoever of,
any information being, or purporting to be, information with respect to any of the following matters, that is to say-
(4) the number, description, armament, equipment, dis- position, movement or condition of any of His Majesty's forces, vessels or aircraft;
(b) any operations or projected operations of any of His Majesty's forces, vessels or aireraft;
(c) any measures for the defence or fortification of any place on behalf of His Majesty;
(d) the number, description or location of any prisoners of war;
(e) munitions of war;
() any other matter whatsoever information as to which would or might be directly or indirectly useful to the enemy
14. No person shall communicate or associate with any other person having reasonable cause to believe that that other person is engaged in assisting the enemy:
Provided that in any proceedings taken by virtue of this regulation in respect of any particular communication or association, it shall be a defence to prove that the purpose of the communication or association was not prejudicial to public safety or to defence.
15. (1) Subject to any exemptions for which provision may be made by order of the Governor no person shall. except under the authority of a written permit granted by the Governor or a competent authority—
(a) have a camera with him in any place in this Colony to which the publie have access, or
(b) make any photograph, sketch, plan or other repre- sentation of any area, or of any part of or object in such area, which may be specified by the Governor being an area
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