CO129-511-7 Watchmen Ordinance- 1928- petition against certain clauses 18-5-1928 - 21-11-1928 — Page 36

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16. Section of the Ordinance gives the Captain

Superintendent of Police a general power to remove any

person from the Register, subject to an appeal to the

Governor in Council.

17. Section 10 of the Ordinance gives a right to appeal

to the Governor in Council to any person whom the Captain

Superintendent of Police has refused to register.

18.

Section 11 of the Ordinance gives to a police watchman

while acting in the discharge of his duties as such the same

powers of arrest as a police officer.

19.

Section 12 of the Ordinance provides that no watchman

is to act as a money-lender or to have any share in the

business of any money-lender. The section does not apply

to any private watchman who (a) was on the 1st January, 1928,

registered as a money-lender, and who (b) satisfies the

Captain Superintendent of Police within one month after the

commencement of the Ordinance, or within such extended period

as the Captain Superintendent of Police may allow in any casc

for any special reason, that he was actually and bona fide

employed as and performing the duties of a watchman at the

commencement of the Ordinance.

20. Section 13 of the Ordinance gives the police power to

search any place or vessel where there is reason to believe

that an unregistered watchman is employed.

21.

Section 14 of the Ordinance provides for the method of

recovery of sums payable under the Ordinance.

22.

Section 15 provides that in any proceeding against

any person under the Ordinance it shall be presumed until the

contrary is proved that such person is not of Chinese race.

This presumption is inserted in consequence of the general

exemption from the Ordinance of persons of Chinese race.

Section 16 of the Ordinance is the penalty section.

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