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(5) Directions given under subsection (3) shall not be incon- sistent with directions given by the Governor under section 47(1).
(6) In this section, "Commissioner of Police" includes any deputy commissioner of police, senior assistant commissioner of police or assistant commissioner of police.
54. (1) For the purposes of this Ordinance, the officer in command of any of Her Majesty's ships of war and any person under his command may board and search any ship, not exceeding five hundred gross tons and not being a ship of war, which is proceeding through the waters of Hong Kong.
(2) Where the officer in command of one of Her Majesty's ships of war has reason to suspect that any ship not exceeding five hundred gross tons is being or has been used in the commis- sion of an offence under section 33(1) or that any person on board such a ship is seeking to land in contravention of section 33(1)(a), such officer and any person under his command may-
(a) seize the ship and detain it until it can be delivered to
an immigration officer or police officer; and
(b) detain any person found on the ship until he can be delivered into the custody of an immigration officer or police officer.
(3) Any such officer and any person under his command may---
(a) stop and forcibly board any ship which he is empowered
to board and search;
(b) remove by force any person or thing obstructing any boarding, search, seizure or detention which he is empowered to make;
(c) detain any person found on any ship which he is
empowered to search until it has been searched.
55. The Governor in Council may make regulations for all or any of the following purposes-
(a) providing for any matter or thing which is to be or may
be prescribed under this Ordinance;
(b) the issue, in such form as the Director of Immigration may determine, of certificates of identity, emergency passports, entry permits, re-entry permits and other docu- ments;
(c) the fees payable in respect of the issue or renewal of documents issued by or on behalf of the Director of
Powers of
Her Majesty's naval officers.
Power to make regulations.
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