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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 2, 1931.
24. No person shall, without the permission of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, import any newspaper, placard or pamphlet containing any matter in the Chinese lan- guage other than a bona fide trade advertisement. No person shall have in his posses- sion any newspaper, placard or pamphlet imported without such permission.
25. The Governor in Council shall have power to suppress for such period as he may think fit or until further order the printing and publication of any newspaper. Any newspaper which has been previously suppressed under any regulation repealed by these regulations shall continue to be suppressed.
26. Upon the making of any order for the suppression of any newspaper the Inspector General of Police shall seize and detain all the machinery, type, appliances paper, printing materials, writing materials, books, documents, writings, effects and things of or pertaining to the suppressed newspaper, with power to remove the same or any part thereof to such place or places within the Colony as he may in his discretion see fit, and there to keep the same so long as such order shall subsist.
All expenses incurred by the Inspector General of Police shall be repaid to him before the return by him of the property, effects and things seized, and in default of payment of such ex- penses, or any part thereof, within one month from the withdrawal of the order for suppression, the property, effects and things seized shall be sold by him to satisfy such expenses, and he shall apply the net proceeds of sale in the first place in or towards satisfaction of such expenses, in the next place in payment of any rent in respect of which a distress for rent might have been levied, and in the next place he shall refund the balance (if any) to the person entitled thereto.
MAGISTRATES POWERS RELATING TO POSSESSION, ETC. OF SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS, ÖFFENSIVE WEAPONS, ETC.
27. Every person who--
(1) prints, publishes, circulates, distributes, or has in his possession any sedi- tious matter as defined in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914;
or
(2) by violence or threats of violence prevents or endeavours to prevent any
other person from doing any act which he is legally entitled to do; or (8) commits any offence against the provisions of section 22 of the Summary
Offences Ordinance, 1815;
shall be liable upon summary conviction before a magistrate to the penalties provided by section 3 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922.
28. Whenever it is proved to the satisfaction of a magistrate, that any printing press, machine, tool, instrument, type, block, paper, material or thing has after the 21st day of June, 1925, in any manner, been used or prepared for use for, or in connexion with, the printing or production of any newspaper, book, placard, pamphlet, document, writing or pictorial representation containing any seditious matter as defined in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914, it shall be lawful for such magistrate, upon the application of the Inspector General of Police or some person authorised by him, to order such printing press, machine, tool, instrument, type, block, paper, material or thing to be forfeited to the Crown, whether any person has been charged or convicted or may hereafter be charged or convicted of any offence in connexion therewith, or not.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES,
29. Every person who has been enrolled or appointed as a special constable or hereafter may be enrolled or appointed as a special constable, whether voluntarily or otherwise, as from the date of his enrolment or appointment and until such enrolment or appointment shall be cancelled or determined by the Governor or some person authorised by the Governor, shall be deemed to have had and he shall have all the powers, privileges, protection and immunities mentioned or referred to in section 3 of the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, but with the like exception as to pay and pension or other reward.