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Power to require storing,
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.
(2) Where the Governor requisitions any property (in- cluding a ship or aircraft) under this regulation, he may use or deal with, or authorize the use of or dealing with, the property for such purpose and in such manner as he thinks expedient in the interests of public safety, defence or the efficient prosecution of the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, and may hold, or sell or otherwise dispose of, the property as if he were the owner thereof.
(3) The Governor, if it appears to him to be necessary for the effectual exercise of his powers under paragraph (1) of this regulation so to do, may, by order made as respects the whole of this Colony or any part thereof-
(a) direct that no person who, at the time when the order takes effect, has in his possession or under his control, at any premises in the area to which the order relates, any such articles as may be described in the order, shall remove the articles, or cause or permit them to be removed, from the premises until the removal of the articles therefrom is permitted by such authority or person as may be specified in the order;
(b) require the owner or occupier of any premises in the said area to send to such authority or person as may be specified in the order a written declaration stating or estimating whether or not, on such date as may be specified in the order, any such articles as aforesaid were or will be on the premises, and, if so, the number or quantity of those articles which was or will be on the premises on that date. according as the order may direct.
(4) An order under this regulation may authorize any person, or any class of person, to perform such functions in connexion with the requisitioning, and may contain such directions, as appear to the Governor to be necessary or expedient.
56. The Governor may require any person who carries on the business of storing, cooling, transporting or distribut- cooling, etc., ing goods of any description to afford similar services in relation to the storage, cooling, transport or distribution of goods for the purpose of any of His Majesty's forces.
services.
Power to re
quire water
and power
services.
Derelict articles.
57. The Governor may require any company, authority or person supplying or authorized to supply water, light, heat or power, or supply water, light, heat or power to any building, premises or camp belonging to or used for the purposes of any of His Majesty's forces or any essential services and to carry out such work and render such services in connexion with such supply as may be directed by the
Governor,
58.-(1) Whenever any person finds an article as to which he has reasonable cause to believe that it has been lost or abandoned, and that, immediately before being lost or abandoned, it was used or intended to be used for the pur- poses of an armed force or was in the possession of a person who had it with him while serving with an armed force, the person so finding the article-
(a) shall forthwith report the nature and situation there- of, or, if the article is a document, cause it to be delivered, to some member of His Majesty's forces on duty in the neighbourhood or to a constable at a police station, and
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