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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 18, 1939.
Affixing of
notices.
Licences,
permits, etc.
Fees For licences, etc.
Disposal of
articles in
possession
authorities.
(2) For the purposes of any inquiry held in pursuance of this regulation, the person appointed to hold the inquiry may by summons require any person to attend, at such time and place as is specified in the summons, to give evidence or to produce any documents in his custody or under his control which relate to any matter in question at the inquiry, and may take evidence on oath, and for that purpose administer oaths, or may, instead of administering an oath, require the person examined to make and subscribe a declaration of the truth of the matter respecting which he is examined.
(3) Every person who refuses or wilfully neglects to attend in obedience to a summons issued under this regula- tion, or to give evidence, or who wilfully alters, suppresses, conceals, destroys or refuses to produce any book or other document which he may be required to produce for the purpose of such an inquiry, shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation.
74. Any authorized officer may, for any purpose con- nected with defence, the prosecution of the war, the securing of the public safety, or the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community, affix any notice to, or cause any notice to be displayed on, any premises, vehicle or vessel, and may, for the purpose of exercising any power conferred by this regulation, enter any premises at any time; and where any authorized officer affixes a notice, or causes a notice to be displayed, in pursuance of this regulation, no person other than an authorized officer shall remove, alter, deface or obliterate the notice.
78. (1) Any person claiming to be the holder of any permit. licence or written permission granted or issued for the purposes of any of these regulations shall, on demand made in that behalf by any police constable or by any authorized officer, produced the permit, licence or permis- sion, as the case may be, to the person making the demand.
(2) If, with intent to deceive, any person alters or uses, or lends to, or allows to be used by any other person, a permit, licence or written permission granted or issued for the purposes of any of these regulations, or makes or has in his possession any document so closely resembling such a permit, licence or permission as to be calculated to deceive, he shall be guilty of an offence against this regulation.
(3) Any licence, permit or permission granted for the purposes of any of these regulations may be revoked at any time by the authority or person empowered to grant it.
79. There may be charged in respect of the grant, renewal or issue of any licence, permit or other document for the purposes of any of these regulations, or any order made under any of these regulations, such fee, not exceeding one hundred dollars, as the Governor may by order deter- mine.
86. (1) Any article coming into the possession of an executive authority (whether in consequence of the seizure of executive of the article under any of these regulations or otherwise) which the authority has reasonable ground for believing to be evidence of the commission of a war offence. may be retained for a period of one month or. if within that period there are commenced proceedings in respect of such an offence in which the article is, or can properly be, adduced in evidence, or proceedings under the following provisions