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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 8, 1916.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 396. It is hereby notified that His Excellency the Governor in Council has given directions for the rescission of the Order of the 16th day of August, 1916, published in the Gazette Extraordinary of the same date as Government Notification No. 356, proclaiming Macao to be a port or place at which an infectious or contagious disease prevailed, and the same is hereby rescinded.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

7th September, 1916.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 397.

Regulations made by His Excellency the Governor relating to the Landing of Alien

Seamen.

ALIEN SEAMEN REGULATIONS, 1916.

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause 1 (a) of clause III of the Order of ller late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council dated the 26th day of October, 1896, as enacted by the Order of His Majesty in Council dated the 21st day of March, 1916, which were brought into operation in the Colony by Proclamations dated the 5th day of August, 1914, and the 12th day of May, 1916, respectively, His Excellency the Governor is pleased to make the following regulations :-

alien seamen.

1.—(1.) An alien, being the master or a member of the crew of a vessel Landing of arriving in the waters of the Colony shall not land at any place in the Colony of Hongkong unless he has in his possession a passport issued to him not more than two years previously by or on behalf of the Government of the country of which he is a subject or a citizen, or some other document satisfactorily establishing his nationality or identity, to which passport or document there must be attached a photograph of the alien to whom it relates.

(2.) Where an alien is under the provisions of these Regulations prohibited from landing at any place, the Captain Superintendent of Police or such other officer as the Captain Superintendent of Police may appoint in that behalf, may nevertheless grant him in writing temporary permission to land for such pur- poses and subject to such conditions as the Captain Superintendent of Police may from time to time prescribe, either generally or as respects any particular place or vessel.

(3.) Where an alien has received such temporary permission to land, he shall carry the written permission on him at all times while he is in the Colony and is not on board his ship, and shall produce such written permission on demand to any revenue officer or police officer.

2. Any alien committing a breach of any of these Regulations, or failing to Penalties. comply with any condition imposed on him under these Regulations, shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months and to a fine not exceeding eight hundred and fifty dollars.

abetting.

3. Any person who aids or abets any alien in any contravention of these Persons Regulations, or knowingly harbours any alien whom he knows or has reason- aiding and able grounds for supposing to have acted in contravention of these Regulations, shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for any term not exceed- ing six months and to a fine not exceeding eight hundred and fifty dollars.