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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 4, 1927.
21. No person, not being a servant of the company, shall alight from or board any carriage while such carriage is in motion, or at any place or spot not being one of the appointed stopping places for passengers during the run as then being made by that carriage.
22. No person, not being a servant of the company, or duly authorised by the com- pany, shall go or be upon any part of the tramway line or track, which term, for the purposes of this rule, shall include all the tramway buildings, sheds, steps, ways, embankments, bridges, viaducts, cuttings, areas and spaces not provided for the use of
passengers.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
23rd September, 1926.
S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Councils.
No. 130.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 5 of 1922, on the 3rd day of March, 1927.
Prohibition of Meetings and Processions.
1. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by order published in the Gazette, to prohibit the holding of any proposed meeting, which, in his opinion, is likely to be conducted in a seditious or disorderly manner, or at or during which, in his opinion, seditious or disorderly utterances are likely to be made or seditious or disorderly matter is likely to be exhibited or used, or at or during which a general strike is likely to be advocated or promoted.
2. No person shall take part in any meeting so prohibited, and no person shall without lawful authority or excuse be present at any meeting so prohibited.
3. It shall be lawful for any police officer to use any force, and to effect any entry, which may appear to be reasonably necessary for the purpose of preventing the holding of any meeting so prohibited, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting so prohibited, and also to search any premises entered and to seize any thing which may appear to be evidence of any offence.
4.-(1) In any case in which he may consider that the urgency of the occasion so requires it shall be lawful for the Governor, without consulting the Executive Council and without publication of the order in the Gazette, to prohibit the holding of any proposed meeting, which, in his opinion, is likely to be conducted in a seditious or disorderly manner, or at or during which, in his opinion, seditious or disorderly matter is likely to be exhibited or used, or at or during which a general strike is likely to be advocated or promoted.
(2) It shall be lawful for any police officer to use any force, and to effect any entry, which may appear to be reasonably necessary for the purpose of preventing the holding of any meeting so prohibited, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting so prohibited, and also to search any premises entered and to seize any thing which may appear to be evidence of any offence.
(3) Any such order may be proved in any legal proceedings by the production of a certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, and judicial notice shall be taken of such signature on such certificate.
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