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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 29, 1940.

Amendment.

The following new regulation shall be inserted in the said regulations as No. 4A thereof :---

4A. Subject to any general or special directions of the Governor the Commissioner of Police and any police officer authorized by him, either generally or specially, shall have power to order any woman or any child under the age of eighteen years or any other person whose presence in the Colony or any part thereof appears to him to be unnecessary for the defence of the Colony or for the maintenance of services essential to the maintenance and security of the community therein to leave the Colony forthwith or to proceed forthwith to some other part of the Colony.

Any order made under this regulation shall be sufficient authority to all police officers and to the master and crew of any vessel or to the guards and attendants of any train to use within the Colony and the territorial waters thereof such force and restraint as may be necessary to carry out such order.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

No. 744.

29th June, 1940.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1912. (HOLIDAYS).

In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 1 (2) (d) of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939, as applied to this Colony by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, published respectively as Government Notifications No. 707 and No. 708 in the Gazette Extra- ordinary No. 39 of the 26th August, 1939, His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government makes the following regulation amending the Holidays Ordinance, 1912—

Amendment.

Section 3 of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912, is amended by the addition at the end thereof of the following proviso:---

Provided that the first week-day in July, 1940, shall not be a general holiday.

Published by His Excellency's Command.

29th June, 1940.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonial Secretary.

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