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(Cap. 232).

Power to make regulations.

when the provisions of paragraph (b) shall apply, or forthwith take him to the nearest police station and shall there hand him over to the custody of a police officer and thereupon the provisions of section 47 of the Police Force Ordinance shall apply: or

(5) by the Immigration Officer for the Colony, or a deputy Imunigration officer, or such duly authorized immigration control officer, who shall forthwith take him to the nearest police station and shall there hand him over to the custody of a police officer and thereupon the provisions of section 47 of the Police Force Ordinance shall apply.

8.

(1) The Goveroor in Council may make such regulations as may be necessary for the purposes of this Ordinance.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1) such regulations may prescribe or provide for-

(a) the manner in which and places at which application for

registration shall be made;

(b) the information and documents to be furnished for the purposes

of registration;

(c) the taking and recording of photographs and fingerprints of persons requiring to be registered and the destruction of such photographs and the facsimiles of all such fingerprints on the expiration of this Ordinance;

(d) the method and manner by which information and documents furnished by a person requiring to be registered are to be recorded and maintained:

(e) the photographing of fingerprints, information and documents furnished or made for the purposes of registration and the destruction of their originals;

(f) the use of films and photographic reproductions of such films; (g) the issue of identity cards, their form, and particulars to be

entered thereon;

(b) the custody and production of identity cards:

() the inspection of identity cards;

() the amendment or cancellation of identity cards, and the issue

of duplicates thereof;

(4) the issue of reports and certificates;

th the exemption of any person or category of persons from the

provisions of this Ordinance;

(m) destruction of documents and records;

(7) forms:

(o) fees.

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(3) Any regulation made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and may prescribe penalties for such offence not exceeding a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.

9. (1) It shall be lawful for the Legislative Council by Power 10 Tesolution--

suspend or revive

operation of

(a) from time to time to declare the suspension of the operation Ordinance.

of this Ordinance from the date named in the resolution; and

(5) from time to time to declare that any suspension declared under paragraph (2) shall terminate as from the date mentioned in the resolution.

(2) The suspension of this Ordinance under paragraph (a) of sub- section (1) shall until the termination of such suspension have the same effect as the repeal of an enactment.

(3) The termination of the suspension under paragraph (b) of subsection (1) shall have the same effect as if the Ordinance had been re-enacted and come into operation on the date as from which the suspension is declared to terminate save and except that any regulations which were in force at the date when the suspension, which has thus been terminated, came into effect, shall revive and continue to have full force and effect.

10. The Registration of Persons Ordinance is hereby repealed; Provided that-

(i) all persons registered or excmpted, other than children under twelve years of age, under the provisions of that Ordinance shall be deemed to be registered or exempted under the provisions of this Ordinance which shall apply. mutatis mutandis, to all such persons:

(ii) all identity cards issued under the provisions of that Ordinance to persons so registered shall be deemed to be issued under the provisions of this Ordinance:

(i) all acts done and all records kept under the provisions of that Ordinance shall be deemed to have been done or kept under the provisions of this Ordinance:

(iv) the Governor may by order published in the Gazette, require by description, category or name all persons deemed to be so registered or exempted under the provisions of that Ordinance to register again in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and any regulations made thereunder:

Repeal. (Cup. 177)