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No. 103.

Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 5 of 1922, on the 28th February, 1922.

of telegrims.

1. It shall be lawful for any person authorised for that purpose by the Ceno aliy Governor to censor, and to suspend the transmission ef, any telegram to or from or in transit through the Colony.

2. No person shall transmit any telegram from or through the Colony Tranmission without the permission of such person as may be authorised by the Governor' of telegans to give such permission.

of letters

3. It shall be lawful for the Postmaster General, or any person authorised wi by him, to seize, open, censor, and suspend the transmission of, any letter received by the Post Office, or by any person, for delivery in the Colony, or intended to be transmitted by any means from the Colony to any place out of the Colony.

possessin

4. It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police, or auy Taking person authorised by him, to take possession of, use, and control, any premises, of prendises. for any purpose which he may consider a public purpose.

prosession

5. It shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police, or any) Taking person authorised by him, to take possession of any vehicle and to use any such of vehicles. vehicle for any purpose which he, or such person, may consider a public purpose.

6. (1.) It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works, the Captain Pesm Superintendent of Police, and any public officer authorised thereto by either' services. of the said officers, to require any person to do any work which such officer may consider to be work which such person can reasonably be required to do, and which such officer may consider desirable in the public interest.

(2) Such work shall be paid for, at the discretion of the Director of Public Works or Captain Superintendent of Police as the case may be, at Tates not lower than those prevailing on the 1st January, 1922.

(3) No person who is called upon under this regulation to do any work shall refuse or neglect to do such work, but shall do such work with reasonable diligence and skill.

7. It shall be lawful for any person empowered by any regulation made Entry. under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, to do anything, to effect any entry which he may consider necessary to enable him to exercise such power.

8. No person shall obstruct any person in the exercise of any power con-Obstruction. ferred on him by any regulatiou made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922.

9. It shall be lawful for any public officer to arrest any person whom he Arrest. may suspect of having contravened any regulation made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance; 1922.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

:

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

28th February, 1922.

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