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(8) Any person who resists or obstructs a Registration Officer or a police officer in the performance of his duties under this Ordinance or of Rules made hereunder or who resists or obstructs any detention, arrest, scarch, seizure or removal which is authorized by this Ordinance; or

(9) Any person who falsely pretends that he is a Registration Officer or other officer appointed by virtue of this Ordinance; or

(10) Any person who, without lawful authority, purports to perform the functions of a Registration Officer or other officer appointed by virtue of this Ordinance; or

(0) Any person who attempts to commit or who aids and abets or who commands, procures and counsels any person to commit any offence made punishable by this section;

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 raking and recording of photographs and fingerprints of applicants and to make provision for the destruction of the same on expiration of this Ordinance; 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;

(k) to make provision for the issue of duplicate Identity Carda 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;

() 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 guilty of such offence shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months unless a lesser penalty is prescribed by such rule.

(3) The rules in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be in force except so far as they may be rescinded or amended by rules made under this section.

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14. The burden of proving the truth of the contents of any No written application for registration or the contents of an Identity of Card shall lie on the applicant, or on the person to whom such Identity Card has been issued, or on any other person alleging the truth of such contents.

truth of contents of Identity Cards, etc.

15. The following persons shall be exempted from the Exemp

Lione. provisions of this Ordinance =

(4) The Governor ;

(b) Members of His Majesty's Regular Naval, Military or Air Forces in possession of the official identity card or document of identity normally issued to members of such Forces;

(c) Members of the Hong Kong Police Force;

(d) Any bona fide traveller in transit through the Colony provided he is in possession of a passport or of an official document of identity bearing a transit visa issued by competent authority;

(e) Children under the age of 12 years;

Any person exempted by rule made under section 13: