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Duty of masters, owners and agents of ships to furnish
passenger lists.
Definition.
4 & 5 Geo.
5, c. 17.
8 & 9 Geo.
5, c. 38.
12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 44.
(4) It shall be the duty of every person except a person of Chinese race who stays at an hotel, inn, boarding-house, lodging-house, or club, to furnish to the keeper or secretary and sign a statement containing such information as such keeper or secretary may require for the purpose of compiling the register kept under sub-section (1), and every person who fails to do so, or gives any false information, shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(5) Every alien, other than an alien of Chinese race, shall furnish to the Commissioner of Police in addition to the particulars in sub-section (1) any information which may reasonably be required by the Commissioner of Police for the purpose of registering an alien or maintaining the correctness or the particulars entered in the register.
(6) Every register kept under this section shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to inspection by any officer of police, or by any other person authorized by the Commissioner of Police.
(7) For the purposes of this section "keeper of a lodging- house" includes any person who for reward receives any other person to lodge with him or in his house; and where any hotel, inn, boarding-house, or lodging-house is under the management of a manager, "keeper" in relation thereto includes such
manager.
5. It shall be the duty of the master, owner and agent of every ship which arrives within the waters of the Colony, or which departs therefrom, carrying any passenger or passengers not being of Chinese race, to furnish in writing to the Com- missioner of Police, within forty-eight hours after such arrival or departure as the case may be, a list containing the names of every such passenger. Such list shall be in such form as the Commissioner of Police may prescribe. Every such owner, master or agent who fails to furnish such list, or who furnishes any list which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
PART II.
6. In this Part "British subject" means a person who is a British subject within the meaning of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Acts, 1914 to 1922.
Exemptions.
7.-(1) The following persons shall be exempt from the following provisions of this Part:-
(a) persons of Chinese race;
(b) members of His Majesty's regular Naval, Military or Air Forces and the Hong Kong Police Force;
(c) female persons;
(d) persons under the age of eighteen years;
(e) persons of and over the age of fifty-five years.
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