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Regulations.
Persons not
subject
to this
Ordinance.
Power of exemption.
Unregistered persons not to act or be employed as watchmen.
Discipline.
3.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for the following purposes :—
(a) fixing the wages and other sums payable by the employers of police watchmen, and the appro- priation of portions of such wages and other sums for such objects as the Governor in Council shall think fit;
(4) making and altering grades and ranks of police
watclimen ;
(c) regulating the conditions of employment and
service of police watchmen ;
(d) providing for the discipline and control of
police watchmen:
(e) imposing duties and obligations on employers
of watchmen;
(f) prescribing fees;
(9) generally for carrying out the provisions of this
Ordinance.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordinance shall be lal on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, aml if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Copacil resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the sail regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done there- under, he deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
4. The following shall not be subject to this Ordi-
nance :-
(a) public officers;
(4) members of His Majesty's regular Naval or
Military Forces, or of auy Auxiliary Force;
(e) persous employed by the Admiralty or Wur
Department; and
(d) watchmen of Chinese race, unless allowed by the Captain Superintendent of Police to regis- for themselves in the Watchmen's Register.
5. The Captain Superintendent of Police may at any time by writing under his hand exempt any watchinan or class of watchmen, or any employer, from any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made thereunder.
6. Subject to the provisions of section 4, no person shall perform or continue to perform any of the duties of a watchman, unless he is registered in the Watchmen's Register either as a police wateliman or as a private watchman, and no person shall knowingly employ or con- tinue to employ any unregistered person as a watcliman or to perform any of the duties of a watchman.
7.-(I) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superinten- dent of Police to order that any police watchman, other than ship's guards, who is found guilty by him of neglect of duty, disobedience to orders, or other misconduct, shall be punished either-
(a) by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, in which case, if the fine is not paid, the Captain Superintendent of Police shall have power to deduct such fine from any money then or thereafter in his bauds payable to such watch-
man, or
(4) by any number of extra or defaulters drills not
exceeding seven for any oue offence, or
(c) by removal from the Watchmeu's Register.
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(2) All such fines shall be paid into the Treasury and shall be applied to such purposes as the Governor may from time to time direct,
8 Every watchman who deserts from his employment Desertion. may be removed from the Watchmen's Register, and if so removed shall forfeit any right to any moneys that may
be standing to his credit in the hands of the Captain Superintendent of Police.
9. In any case other than those specified in sections 8 General and 9, the Captain Superintendent of Police may remove power of any person from the Watchmen's Register, subject to an rernoval from the appeal to the Governor in Council.
Watchmen's Register.
10. Subject to an appeal to the Governor in Council, Admission the Captain Superintendent of Police may refuse to per- to the mit any person to register himself in the Watchmen's Watchmen's Register.
Register.
11. Every police watebroan shall while acting in the Power of discharge of his duties as a watchman have the same arrest. powers of arrest as a police officer.
12. No watchman shall act as a money-leuder or take Watchmen any part in the business of any money-lender or share in not to be the profits of any such business. This section shall not money- apply to any private watchman who (a) was on the Ist lenders. January, 1928, registered under the Money-leudera Ordi- nance, 1911, as a money-lender, and who (4) satisfies the Ordinance Captain Superintendent of Police within one month after No 16 of the commencement of this Onliannee, or within such 1911. extended period as the Captain Superintendent of Police may allow in any case for any special reason, that he was actually and bona fide employed as and performing the duties of a watchman at the commencement of this Ordi
nance.
13. It shall be lawful for any police officer who is Search. authorized thereto by the Captain Superintendent of Police, either generally or in a particular case, to enter any place, and to search any vessel (not being or having the status of ship of war), in or on board which such police officer has reason to believe that an unregistered watchman is employed, and to search such place or vessel, and to do everything which may be reasonably necessary
in order to make such search effective.
14. Every sum of money payable under the provisions Recovery
of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder of sung shall be recoverable in the same manner as Crown Rents payable. are recovered upon a certificate purporting to be under the hand of the Treasurer.
15. In any proceeding against any person under this Ordinance it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved
that such person is not of Chinese race,
Presumption.
18. Every person who contravenes any of the provi- Penalties. sions of this Ordinance or of any regulation made there- under shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine
not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to impri- sonment for any term not exceeding six months.
17. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the Commence-
Ist day of May, 1928.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this
5th day of April, 1928.
T. W. AINSWOrth,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
ment,
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