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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 28, 1941.

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No. 246

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

In exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, and the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) (Amend- ment) Order in Council, 1940, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government makes the following regulation which shall be inserted in and shall form part of the Defence Regulations, 1940, published as Government Notification 709 in the Gazette Extraordinary of 25th June, 1940, as subsequently amended-

stop

stop and search

70.-(1) The person driving, or in control of, any road Power to vehicle in motion or any vessel in motion on water to which the public have access or on any inland navigation shall vehicles the vehicle or vessel on being required so to do by any constable in uniform or by any member of His Majesty's forces being in uniform and on duty-

(2) If-

(a) as respects any road vehicle being on a public high- way or in a place to which the public have access; or

(b) as respects any vessel being on water to which the public have access or on any inland navigation;

or

(c) upon the overtaking of a road vehicle or vessel on any occasion on which the person driving, or in control of, the vehicle or vessel has been lawfully required to stop it but has failed to do so,

any constable or member of His Majesty's forces has reason- able ground for suspecting that there is to be found in the vehicle or vessel evidence of the commission of a war offence, he may search the vehicle or vessel and may seize any article found therein which he has reasonable ground for believing to be evidence of the commission of any such offence.

The powers conferred by this paragraph shall be in addition to, and not in derogation of, the powers conferred by any other of these regulations.

Published by His Excellency's Command.

and vessels.

25th February, 1941.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.