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[Subsidiary]
Certain offences in closed, protected, damaged or evacuated areas to be punishable with life imprisonment.
In force, G.N.A. 85/50. (Cap. 245.) (Cap. 210.)
CAP. 241
Emergency (Principal) Regulations.
【1967 Ed.
124. If in any closed area or protected place or in any area which at any time after the coming into force of these regulations has been destroyed or damaged by any means whatsoever or subjected to an attack by the enemy or of which any evacuation has been or shall be ordered under section 11 of the Public Order Ordinance, any person-
Discontinued by 2 & 43/69 (Cap. 211.)
Interference with and damage to communications, etc.
In force, G.N.A. 85/50.
(a) commits any offence punishable under subsection (2) of section 40 of the Larceny Ordinance;
(b) steals any article from any premises destroyed or damaged or vacated for the purpose of complying with such an evacuation order as aforesaid or any article left exposed or unprotected in consequence of such destruction;
(c) commits any offence against any provision of the Criminal Damage Ordinance,
(d) endeavours to force a safeguard,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for life.
125. Any person who, not being a member of Her Majesty's regular forces or any local naval, military or air force, corps or reserve, or a police officer, or an authorized officer acting in the course of his duty as such-
Discontinued by 43/69
(a) interferes with the working or use of any harbour, railway, tramway, waterway, road, track, power station, transmission line or any works or plant used or adapted for use for the production, supply, storage or transport of water or fuel;
(b) damages or interferes with any material or property forming part of, or connected with, any harbour, railway, tramway, waterway, road, track, power station or transmission line, or forming part of, or connected with, any works or plant used or adapted for use for the production, supply, storage or transport of water or fuel;
(c) damages or interferes with any telegraph or telephone line or apparatus or any wireless telegraph or telephone installation or any other means of communication;
(d) damages or interferes with any aircraft, aircraft material, aerodrome, landing ground or mooring; or
(e) does any act or is guilty of any omission calculated to obstruct or to endanger the safety of any vessel, aircraft, vehicle, locomotive or railway train,
shall be guilty of an offence unless he proves that he was acting by lawful authority or on a lawful occasion.
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