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Control of

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may be or while in such waters, or engaged in such trades or on such voyages, as may be specified in the order, but nothing in such an order shall apply to any Dominion ship.

(2) Without prejudice to any navigation order or to the preceding provisions of this regulation, any person acting on behalf of the Governor, or any such authority, or person as may be designated by the Governor for the purposes of this sub- regulation, may give such directions with respect to any particular ship-

(a) for determining the place in the Colony to which the ship may go, or the position within any such place at which the ship may lie; and

(b) for determining the class of goods or passengers which may be put off or taken on board the ship at any particular place in the Colony;

as the Governor or the said authority or person, as the case may be, considers necessary or expedient in the public interest.

(3) If any ship proceeds or attempts to proceed to sea in contravention of an order made under this regulation, or if otherwise there is any contravention of such an order in the case of a ship, the master of the ship and the person having the management thereof shall each be guilty of an offence against this regulation.

(4) Any person acting on behalf of the Governor may, in relation to any ship, take such steps, and use such force, as may appear to that person to be reasonably necessary for securing compliance with any order under this regulation relating to the ship, or, where an offence against this regulation has occurred in the case of the ship, for enabling proceedings in respect of the offence to be effectually taken.

54. (1) The competent authority may by order direct that, agreements subject to the provisions of the order, no person shall enter into hire of, or or offer to enter into an agreement for the use or hire of a ship carriage of of any such class as may be specified in the order or for the

carriage of goods in any such ship.

goods in. ships.

(2) Notwithstanding any thing in regulation 136 hereaf where it is proved that an offer made by any person in contra- vention of an order under the preceding sub-regulation has beed followed by an agreement so made by him in pursuance of that offer, those transactions together shall be taken to constitute a single offence.

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för service

85. Where a British ship (not being a Dominion ship) is Effect of acquired, chartered or requisitioned by or on behalf of the Govern- requisition ment of Hong Kong and the employment or engagement in that agreements ship of the master or any member of the crew would, but for this

in ships. regulation, he terminated by the acquisition, charter or requisition, then, unless in any case the Governor or any person on his behalf otherwise directs, the employment or engagement shall not be terminated thereby, but the agreement under which the master or member of the crew is employed or engaged shall have effect, as respects the period during which the ship is owned, chartered or requisitioned by or on behalf of the Government of Hong Kong, as if it were an agreement made with the said Government for service in that ship: Provided that nothing in this regulation shall be construed as affecting the expiration, by effluxion of time, of any such agreement,

of

66. In the public interest the Governor may, by order, Regulation regulate or prohibit, either absolutely or subject to such ?T

prohibition conditions as may be contained in the order, the navigation of of the all or any descriptions of aircraft over the Colony or any portion navigation thereof, or the territorial waters adjacent thereto and may by aircraft order provide for regulating or prohibiting the use, erection, over the

Colony. building, maintenance or establishment of any aerodrome, flying school or landing ground, or any class or description thereof.

PART V.

Transport.

and

watery.

67. The Governor, if he considers it necessary or expedient Control of in the public interest may by order provide for the stopping up, bighways restriction of the use of or diversion of any highway, and for territorial prohibiting or restricting the exercise of any right of way or the use of the territorial waters of the Colony or any part thereof.

58. Without prejudice to any other of these regulations, Traffic on the Governor may by order provide for the regulation of traffic highways. on highways, and, without prejudice to the generality of the power aforesaid, any such order may in particular provide-

(a) for determining the routes to be followed by any particular class of vehicles proceeding on highways, either generally or in such circumstanes as may be determined by or in accordance with the order;

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