THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 8, 1939.
Provided that no female shall be searched in pursuance of this paragraph except by a female.
(4) As respects any goods, being goods consigned from the Colony to a destination which is outside the Colony, the appropriate officer and any person acting under his directions may examine or search the goods for the purpose of ascertain- ing whether there are being sent therewith any bank notes, postal orders, gold, securities or foreign currency, and may seize any bank notes, postal orders, gold, securities or foreign currency found upon such examination or search unless there appears to the appropriate officer to have been granted by or on behalf of the Governor a certificate which shows that the sending as aforesaid of the bank notes, postal orders, gold, securities or foreign currency does not involve a contravention of paragraph (1) of this Regulation.
(5) For the purposes of this Regulation-
(a) any bills of exchange or promissory notes payable otherwise than in sterling shall be deemed to be foreign
currency;
(b) the expression "transfer" includes transfer by way of loan or security, and a person shall be deemed to transfer securities from the Colony elsewhere if he transfers securities from a register in the Colony to a register outside the Colony;
and
(c) the expression "the appropriate officer" means any revenue officer, any constable or any person authorized by the Colonial Secretary to act under paragraphs (3) and (4) of this Regulation;
and for the purposes of so much of paragraph (1) of this Regulation as restricts the taking or sending of securities out of the Colony, documents of title relating to securities shall be deemed to securities, and references to securities in paragraphs (3) and (4) of this Regulation shall be construed as including references to such documents of title as afore- said.
bullion.
3.-(1) Every person resident in the Colony who Acquisition at the date on which this Regulation comes into
by Govern- opera- tion is, or after that date becomes, entitled to sell, or coin and
ment of gold to procure the sale of, any gold shall offer that gold, or cause it to be offered, for sale to the Government of Hong Kong or to a person designated by the Governor for the purposes of this Regulation, at such price as may be deter- mined by or on behalf of the Governor:
Provided that the preceding provisions of this para- graph shall not impose upon any person an obligation to offer any gold for sale or to cause any gold to be offered for sale, if-
(a) he satisfies the Governor or a person so designated --
(i) that all the persons interested in that gold, other than persons interested therein merely as trustees or merely by virtue of any mortgage, pledge or charge created before the third day of September nineteen-hundred and thirty- nine, but including any persons beneficially interested in the gold under a trust, are not resident in the Colony, or
(ii) that the gold is required for the purpose of per- forming a contract made before the said day, or
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