SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, AUGUST 19, 1949.
HONG KONG
No. 37 of 1949.
L.S.
I assent.
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A. G. GRANTHAM,
Governor.
18th August, 1949.
An Ordinance to provide for the registration of persons the issue
of identity cards and for purposes incidental thereto.
[19th August, 1949.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Registration of Short title. Persons Ordinance, 1949.
2. (1) In this Ordinance-
"applicant" means a person required to make application for registration under the provisions of section 4;
"employer" means the Head of any department of Government in the Commonwealth, or of any department of the Government of Hong Kong or the departmental or divisional Head of any Ecclesiastical, Charitable, Educational, Professional, Social, Commercial, Industrial, Agricultural or Fisheries Organi- zation in the Colony;
Inter- pretation.
"forgery" has the same meaning as in the Forgery Ordinance Ordinance, 1922;
"prescribed" means prescribed by rule made under
this Ordinance;
"Register" means the register of persons kept by
the Registration Commissioner ;
"Registration Commissioner" means the officer appointed as Commissioner of Registration for the Colony;
"Assistant Commissioner" means an officer appointed as Assistant Commissioner of Registration for the Colony;
No. 11 of 1922.