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Power to stop and search vehicles.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.
(b) to the conveyance of ammunition, explosives or in- flammable substances in any vessel for purposes of defence: but the Governor may by order make such provision as appears to him to be required in the interests of safety for regulating the shipping, unshipping, handling, storage and conveyance of ammunition, explosives and inflammable sub- stances as aforesaid in any such area.
(2) Any reference in this regulation to shipping or to unshipping shall be construed as including a reference to putting on board seaplanes or to unloading from seaplanes, as the case may be.
49.--(1) The person driving, or in control of, any road vehiele in motion shall stop the vehicle on being required so to do by any air raid warden on duty, any police constable in uniform or by any member of His Majesty's forces being in uniform and on duty.
(2) If-
(a) as respects any road vehicle being on a public high- way or in a place to which the public have access, or
(b) upon the overtaking of a road vehicle on any occasion on which the person driving, or in control of, the vehicle has been lawfully required to stop it but has failed to do so,
any police constable or member of His Majesty's forces has reasonable ground for suspecting that there is to be found in the vehicle evidence of the commission of a war offence, he may search the vehicle and may seize any article found therein which he has reasonable ground for believing to be evidence of the commission of such an offence.
(3) In this regulation the expression "road vehicle " means any vehicle designed or adapted for use on roads.
PART VI.
General control of industry.
Appropriation, control, forfeiture and disposition of property and of the use thereof.
50.-(1) A competent authority, so far as appears to that authority to be necessary in the interests of defence or the efficient prosecution of the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, may, subject to any general or special instructions of the Governor, by order provide-
(a) for regulating or prohibiting the production, treat- ment, keeping, storage, movement, transport, distribution, sale, purchase, use or consumption of articles of any descrip- tion, and, in particular, for controlling the prices at which such articles may be sold;
(b) for regulating the carrying on of any undertaking engaged in essential work, and, in particular, for controlling the charges which may be made by the undertakers in respect of the doing of any work by them;
(c) for requiring persons carrying on, or employed in connexion with, any trade or business specified in the order to produce to such authority or person as may be so specified.