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7. The owner, charterer, agent or licensee of any vessel not required by or under these regulations to undergo search may apply to the Captain Superintendent of Police for police search of the vessel; the Captain Superintendent of Police may refuse to comply with any such application, or may impose conditions on which any such applica- tion will be granted: every search undertaken pursuant to this regulation shall be deemed to be an authorised search under these regulations.

8. No ship required or authorised by or under these regulations to undergo police search shall commence or attempt to commence a voyage or trip except from a place and at an hour previously notified to and approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police.

9. Subject to exemption granted under these regulations no ship shall carry or attempt to carry any passenger from the Colony or through the waters of the Colony on a voyage to or including any port or place-

(1) on the Canton River; or

(2) on the West River or any river or estuary in the province of Kwong Tung

or the province of Kwong Sai; or

(3) in either of the said provinces; or

(4) in Formosa; or

(5) on the east coast of Asia south of Shanghai and north of Singapore : unless and until a search thereof, conducted in such manner as the Captain Superinten- dent of Police may direct and approve, shall have been carried out, nor until the master or other person in charge thereof shall have received a certificate in writing signed by the Captain Superintendent of Police, or by some police officer authorised by the Captain Superintendent of Police in that behalf, from which it shall appear that such search has been completed.

10. Subject to exemption granted under these regulations and to the proviso herein contained no ship shall carry any passenger or attempt to carry any passenger beyond the harbour of Victoria on any voyage within the local trade limits as defined in the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, or leave or attempt to leave any place of mooring or place of call in the waters of the Colony and outside the said harbour unless and until a search of the nature mentioned in the foregoing regulation 9 has been carried out, nor until the master or other person in charge thereof shall have obtained a certificate in writing of the kind mentioned in the said regulation 9: Provided that this regulation shall not apply in the case of any launch of motor boat on occasions when it is used solely for purposes of pleasure.

11. No ship to which the foregoing regulation 10 applies shall call at any place en route unless such place of call and the intended hour of departure therefrom has been notified to and approved by the Captain Superintendent of Police. Approved hours of departure shall be adhered to.

12. Except with the permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police, or in saving life or rescue work at sea no person shall be allowed to embark on and nothing shall be brought on board any ship after delivery of the certificate required by the fore- going regulations 9 and 10 and before leaving the waters of the Colony or arrival at the first place of call therein, notified and approved as aforesaid, as the case may be.

13. (1) Every police officer in carrying out or taking part in any search required or authorised by these regulations shall have power to search any vessel and its stores and equipment, and the master, officers, staff and crew, and their belongings, the passengers and their goods and baggage, and the cargo, and every person and thing on board, and every person wlio may apparently be about to go on board and everything which apparently is about to be put on board, and may do all such acts and things as may be reasonably necessary in order to carry ont such search effectually.

(2) The police officer in charge of any searching party, and any police officer superior to him, shall have power to detain any vessel until in his opinion the searching shall have been completed.

(3) It shall be lawful for the police officer in charge of any searching party, and any officer superior to him, to order that no passenger or thing shall embark or be brought on board without his express consent while the search is proceeding; no person shall act contrary to such order; any such order shall be in force as soon as the same shall have been communicated to the master or other person in charge of the vessel.

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