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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 3, 1939.
(2) If, in the ease of any vessel, a navigation order is contravened or not complied with, the master of the vessel shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation.
(3) An authorized officer may, in relation to any vessel. take such steps, and use such force, as may appear to that person to be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with any order under this regulation relating to the vessel, or, where an offence against this regulation has occurred in the case of the vessel, for enabling proceedings in respect of the offence to be effectually taken.
(4) This regulation shall apply in relation to seaplanes on the surface of the water as those provisions apply in relation to vessels, and seaplanes taking off from, or alighting on, the water shall be deemed, for the purpose of this regulation, to be on the surface of the water while in contact therewith.
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 interesis 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 any books, account or other documents relating to that trade or business, and for requiring any persons to furnish to such authority or person as may be specified in the order such estimates or returns as the competent authority may require;
(d) for any incidental and supplementary matters for which the competent authority thinks it expedient for the purposes of the order to provide, including, in particular. the entering and inspection of premises to which the order relates by persons authorized in that behalf by the competent authority, with a view to securing compliance with the order: and an order under this regulation may prohibit the doing of anything regulated by the order except under the authority of a licence granted by such authority or person as may be specified in the order, and may be made so as to apply either to undertakings generally or to any particular person or undertaking or class of persons or undertakings, and either to the whole or to any part of any undertakings, and so as to have effect either throughout this Colony or in any particular area therein.