CO129-511-7 Watchmen Ordinance- 1928- petition against certain clauses 18-5-1928 - 21-11-1928 — Page 35

37

does not apply to casual watchmen, who do not go to sea but

who are employed in the harbour as watchmen in the more

limited sense of the term.

10.

Section 3 of the Ordinance gives the Governor in

Council power to make regulations.

11. It has been stated above in paragraph 4 that the

Ordinance does not apply to persons of Chinese race unless

they are in fact registered. The Ordinance will also not

apply to public officers, His Majesty's regular Naval and

Military Torces, the Volunteers, or persons employed by the

Admiralty or War Department. This is provided in section 4.

12. Section of the Ordinance gives the Captain

Superintendent of Police a power of exemption. A case in

which this power will probably be exercised is that of the

two dock companies referred to in paragraph 2 above. Both

these companies have well organized bodies of watchmen.

The exemption, however, will not be an exemption from the

necessity for registration, or from the power of the

Captain Superintendent of Police to remove names from the

register.

13. Section 6 of the Ordinance is the section which

prohibits the employment of unregistered persone.

14. Section 7 of the Ordinance gives the Captain

Superintendent of Police certain disciplinary powers over police

watchmen, other than ship's guards.

Ship's guards are

excluded from this section because of the objections to dual

control in the case of persons employed on board ships at

seg.

15.

Section 3 of the Ordinance provides that a watchman

who deserts may be removed from the Register and that on such

removal he shall forfeit his right to any moneys that may be

standing to his credit in the hands of the Captain

Superintendent of Police.