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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

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