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enables any such person to be arrested and kept in
custody until his departure from the Colony.
To a great extent the Ordinance, including the First
Schedule, embodies the existing practice, but in the two follow-
ing respects it introduces changes :-
(a) It relieves the Provost Karshel of the duties of
examining persons entering the Golony and of issuing
passes to Europeans leaving the Colony, and it
transfers the whole of this work to the Captain
Superintendent of Police, who already assisted the
Provost Karshal in much of the work and who already
had the duty of issuing passes to Indians leaving
the colony.
(b) It supplements the Governor's powers under sub-clause
3 of cl-use III of the Order-in-Council of the 26th
October, 1896, with powers of arrest and detention,
and with a power to say when and how the deportee
must leave the Colony.
Section 1 is formal.
Section 2 contains definitions. "Police Officer" is
defined s0 as to include special constables in order to give
express powers of enquiry and arrest to the European guards
on the British seation of the Kowloon Canton Railway who are
all special constables.
Sections 3, 5 and 6 deal with the examination of ships
entering the waters of the Colony.
Section 4 lays an obligation on all persons who enter the
Colony and who are not examined at the time of their arrival
to report themselves at a police station, provided that they
fall under section 10 of the ordinance which is referred to
below.
Section 7 obliges all persons entering or leaving the