1949-HKRS30-8-39_Part05 — Page 24

Citation.

IMMIGRANTS CONTROL ORDINANCE, 1949.

REGULATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR IN COUNCIL.

In exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 34 of the Immigrants Control Ordinance, 1949, and of all other powers thereunto him enabling His Excellency the Governor in Council has made the following regulations :-

REGULATIONS

1. These regulations may be cited as the Immigrants Control (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations, 1949, and shall be read as one G.N. A. & with the Immigrants Control Regulations, 1949, hereinafter Gaz. Suppl. referred to as the principal regulations.

No. 2 of

18.3.49.

Revocation and

of

repl.cement

regulation 15 of the principal regulations.

2. Regulation 15 of the principal regulations is hereby revoked and replaced as follows:

"Exemptions, 18. (1) Consuls de Carriere duly accredited to the Government of Hong Kong are exempted from the provisions of sections 24 and 25 of the Ordinance.

(2) Citizens of the Chinese Republic, if of Chinese race and if entering or leaving the Colony from or to a destination in such Republic, are exempted from the provisions of sections 18, 24 and 25 of the Ordinance :

Provided that-

(a) such persons be not wholly or partially attired in uniform; and

(b) such persons are not entering or leaving the Colony from or to Hainan or Taiwan."

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

28th December, 1949-

Acting Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

Regulation 15 of the Immigrants Control Regulations, 1949, provided for exemptions from the provisions of sections 4, 18, 24, 25 and 28 of the Immigrants Control Ordinance in regard to citizens of the Chinese Republic of Chinese race, entering or leaving the Colony, from or to a destination in such Republic or in Maçan.

2. The above regulations amend regulation 15 so as to make section 4 of the Ordinance relating to points of entry to the Colony applicable to all persons and to make all the provisions of the Ordinance applicable to Chinese seamen and Chinese attired wholly or partially in uniform and also to persons entering or leaving the Colony, from or to Hainan or Taiwan.