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16. Section of the Ordinance gives the Captain
Superintendent of Police a general power to remove any
person from the Register, subject to an appeal to the
Governor in Council.
17. Section 10 of the Ordinance gives a right to appeal
to the Governor in Council to any person whom the Captain
Superintendent of Police has refused to register.
18.
Section 11 of the Ordinance gives to a police watchman
while acting in the discharge of his duties as such the same
powers of arrest as a police officer.
19.
Section 12 of the Ordinance provides that no watchman
is to act as a money-lender or to have any share in the
business of any money-lender. The section does not apply
to any private watchman who (a) was on the 1st January, 1928,
registered as a money-lender, and who (b) satisfies the
Captain Superintendent of Police within one month after the
commencement of the Ordinance, or within such extended period
as the Captain Superintendent of Police may allow in any casc
for any special reason, that he was actually and bona fide
employed as and performing the duties of a watchman at the
commencement of the Ordinance.
20. Section 13 of the Ordinance gives the police power to
search any place or vessel where there is reason to believe
that an unregistered watchman is employed.
21.
Section 14 of the Ordinance provides for the method of
recovery of sums payable under the Ordinance.
22.
Section 15 provides that in any proceeding against
any person under the Ordinance it shall be presumed until the
contrary is proved that such person is not of Chinese race.
This presumption is inserted in consequence of the general
exemption from the Ordinance of persons of Chinese race.
Section 16 of the Ordinance is the penalty section.
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