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rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall, without prejudice to anything done there- under, be deemed to be rescinded or amended as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.

4. The following shall not be subject to this Ordi- Persons not

nance :-

(a) public officers ;

() members of His Majesty's regular Naval or

Military Forces, or of any Auxiliary Force;

(e) persons employed by the Admiralty or War

Department; and

(d) persons of Chinese race, unless allowed by the Captain Superintendent of Police to register themselves in the Watchmen's Register.

subject to this Ordinance.

3. The Captain Superintendent of Police may at any Power of time by writing under his hand exempt any watebman or exemption. class of watchmen, or any employer, from any of the provisions of this Ordinance or of any of the regulations made thereunder.

6. Subject to the provisions of section 4, no person Unregistered shall perform or continue to perform any of the duties of persons not a watchman, unless he is registered in the Watchmen's to act or be employed as Register, and no person shall employ or continue to employ watchmen. any unregistered person as a watchman or to perform any of the duties of a watchman.

7.-(1) No person shall, without the permission of the Prohibited Captain Superintendent of Police, perform or continue to employment. perform the duties of a watchman for more than one employer.

(2) No person shall, without the permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police, employ or continue to employ as a watchman any person who is employed by any other employer.

8.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superinten- Discipline. dent of Police to order that any registered watchman, other than ship's guards, who is found guilty by him of neglect of duty, disobedience to orders, or other misconduct, shall be punished either-

(a) by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, in which case, if the fine is not paid, the Captain Superintendent of Police or such Superintend- ent shall bave power to deduct such fine from any moneys then or thereafter in his hands payable to such watchman, or

(6) by any number of extra or defaulters drills not

exceeding seven for any one offence, or

(e) by removal from the Watchmen's Register.

(2) All such fines shall be paid into the Treasury and shall be applied to such purposes as the Governor may from time to time direct.

9. Every watchman who deserts from his employment Desertion. may be removed from the Watchmen's Register, and if so removed shall forfeit any right to any moneys that may be standing to his credit in the hands of the Captain Superintendent of Police.

10. In any case other than those specified in sections 8 General and 9, the Captain Superintendent of Police may remove power of

removal any person from the Watchmen's Register, subject to an appeal to the Governor in Council.

from the Watchmen's Register.

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