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Billeting.
Power to enter and search premises.
THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.
80.--(1) A competent authority may cause to be served upon the occupier of any premises a written notice (here- inafter referred to as a billeting notice "), requiring the occupier of those premises to furnish therein, until further notice or during such period as may be specified in the billeting notice, according as that notice may direct, accom- modation (by way of lodging or food or both, and either with or without attendance, according as the notice may direct) for such number of persons as may be so specified, being either persons in the service of His Majesty or persons who are in the service of a local authority and are engaged in the performance of essential services.
Every billeting notice must, in order to be of any effect for the purposes of this regulation, define by reference to the particular service or services in which they are engaged the persons for whom accommodation is required by the notice.
(2) The lodging or food to be furnished in accordance with a billeting notice, and the price to be paid in respect of any accommodation so furnished in any premises shall be such, and shall be paid to the occupier of the premises by such authority, as may be determined by order of the Governor.
(3) If the occupier of any premises feels aggrieved by the requirements of any, billeting notice, he may, within. fourteen days from the beginning of the day on which the notice is served on him, complain to a magistrate, and thereupon the magistrate, if satisfied that the furnishing of accominodation in accordance with the notice would otherwise impose an undue burden upon the occupier, may by order annul the notice or direct that it shall have effect subject to such modifications as may be specified in the order.
(4) The penalty to which a person guilty of an offence under this regulation shall be liable shall be a fine not exceed- ing one thousand dollars.
81.-(1) If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that a war offence has been or is being committed, and that evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found at any premises specified in the information, he may grant a search warrant authorizing any officer of police or any commissioned officer in His Majesty's forces, together with any other persons named in the warrant and any other police constables or members of His Majesty's forces, to enter the premises at any time or times within one month from the date of the warrant, if necessary by force, and to search the premises and every person found therein, and to seize any article found in the premises or on any such person which the officer has reason- able ground for believing to be evidence of the commission of such an offence as aforesaid.
(2) If. with respect to any premises, any European officer of police of a rank not lower than that of assistant superintendent, or any person authorized by the Governor to act under this paragraph, has reasonable ground for suspect- ing that a war offence has been or is being committed, and that evidence of the commission of the offence is to be found. at those premises, and is satisfied--
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