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Aliens may be required to furnish certain particulars, etc.
Schedule.
Registration of visitors at hotels, etc.
(b) The personnel of any ship which is in the waters of the Colony and passengers residing thereon;
(c) Persons not exceeding 16 years of age.
3. (1) Every alien, other than an alien of Chinese race or an alien exempted from liability to report under section 2 (4) or by section 2 (5), on being required to do so by any police officer either verbally or in writing, shall make a correct return of the information and particulars specified in the Schedule and shall, for such purpose, if so required by any police officer, attend forthwith or as directed at Police Headquarters. He shall also either supply two sufficient photographs of himself or allow himself to be photographed.
(2) He shall also truthfully and fully answer all questions and inquiries put to him by any police officer with a view to checking the correctness of the return.
(3) Any answer to any such question or inquiry shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings under this Ordinance Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed as rendering any such answer inadmissible in any other proceedings in which it would otherwise be admissible.
(4) He shall also disclose and produce to any police officer on demand all documents in his possession tending directly or indirectly to establish his identity, nationality and occupation.
4. (1) It shall be the duty of the keeper of every hotel, inn, boarding-house, and lodging-house, and of the secretary of every club, to ascertain and enter in a register kept for the purpose the names and nationality of all persons except persons of Chinese race staying at the hotel, inn, board- ing-house, lodging-house or club, together with the dales of their arrival and departure, their destinations on departure and such other particulars as may be prescribed by the Inspector General of Police, and if the keeper of an hotel, inn, boarding-house or lodging-house, or the secretary of a club, fails to do so, or if he makes any entry in any such register which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false, he shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(2) The keeper of every hotel, inn, boarding-house er lodging-house, and the secretary of every club, shall also make to the Inspector General of Police such return as to the particulars aforesaid, at such times or intervals, and in such form as the Inspector General of Police may direct, and every such keeper or secretary who fails to do so, or makes any false return, shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(3) It shall be the duty of every person except a person of Chinese race who stays at an hotel, inn, boarding-house, lodging-house, or club, to furnish to the keeper or secretary and sign a statement containing such information as such keeper or secretary may require for the purpose of compiling such register as aforesaid, and every person who fails to do so, or gives any false information, shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
(4) Every register kept under this section shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to inspection by any officer of police, or by any other person authorised by the Inspector General of Police.
(5) For the purposes of this section, "keeper of a lodging-house" includes any person who for reward receives any other person to lodge with him or in his house; and where any hotel, inn, boarding-house, or lodging-house is under the management of a manager, "keeper" in relation thereto includes such manager.
owners and
ships to
lists.
5. It shall be the duty of the master, owner and agent Duty of of every ship which arrives within the waters of the Colony, masters, or which departs therefrom, carrying any passenger or passen- agents of gers not being of Chinese race, to furnish in writing to the furnish Inspector General of Police, within forty-eight hours after passenger such arrival or departure as the case may be, à list containing the names of every such passenger. Such list shall be in such form as the Inspector General of Police may prescribe. Every such owner,
master or agent who fails to furnish such list, or who furnishes any list which he knows or could by the exercise of reasonable diligence have ascertained to be false shall be guilty of a contravention of this Ordinance.
Schedule
6. The Governor in Council may amend in any way Amend- whatsoever the Schedule to this Ordinance and may also make ment of regulations generally for the purpose of carrying out the and Regula provisions of this Ordinance.
tions.
7. Every person who acts in contravention of or Penalties. fails to comply with any of the provisions of this Ordin- ance or of any regulations made thereunder, and every person who permits or knowingly is a party to any such contravention or failure, shall be liable upon summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars
8. The Travellers Restriction Ordinance, 1915, and
the Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1916 are repealed.
tepeals. No. 19 of
Ordinances
1515, No. 6 of 1916,
9. This Ordinance shall come into force on such date Comnience-
as may be fixed by Proclamation of the Governor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 29th day of March, 1934.
R. A. C. NORTH,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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