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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE,

Rules.

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year.

13. (1) The Governor in Council may from time to time. make rules for the purposes following or any of them :--

(a) to prescribe the manner in which application for registration of persons under this Ordinance shall be made;

(b) to prescribe the forms which may be used for carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance;

(c) to prescribe the information to be furnished to a Registration Officer;

(d) to prescribe the documents to be furnished to a Registration Officer;

(e) to make provision for the taking and recording of photographs and fingerprints of applicants and to make provision for the destruction of the same on expiration of this Ordinance;

(f) to prescribe the form of and the particulars to be entered in the Register;

(g) to prescribe the form of and the particulars to be entered on Identity Cards, including provision for photographs and fingerprints of the person to whom such card relates;

(h) to make provision for the issue of duplicate Identity Cards in case of loss, destruction or defacement;

(i) to provide for the custody and carriage of and for the production to specified persons of Identity Cards;

(i) to prescribe times and places for the attendance before a Registration Officer of applicants and holders of Identity Cards;

(k) to exempt any person or category of persons either wholly or in part from the provisions of this Ordinance;

(1) to prescribe fees;

(m) generally for carrying into effect the provisions of this Ordinance in relation to any matter, whether similar or not to those in this sub-section mentioned, as to which it may be convenient to make rules.

(2) Any rule made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and that a person

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