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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 7,

prohibited under or by these regulations, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting at or in connexion with which any condition prescribed under regulation 10 or 11 has been or is being contravened, and also to search any premises entered or vessel boarded, and to seize any thing which may appear to be evidence of any offence.

13. It shall be lawful for any police officer to stop, divert, divide or disperse any procession whatsoever, or any part thereof, or to divide or disperse any crowd or assembly whatsoever or any part thereof.

14 Every person taking part in any procession, crowd or assembly, shall disperse when called upon by any police officer to do so.

15. In these regulations-

(a)" Meeting" includes every assembly, entertainment, gathering, celebration, service and ceremony, whether open to the public or not, and every procession;

(b) "seditious words" and "seditious publications" have the same meanings respectively as in the Sedition Ordinance, 1938.

PREVENTION OF DISORDER.

16. The Governor in Council shall have power to proscribe within the Colony, for the purposes of these regulations, any organization whatsoever, whether such organization be within or without the Colony, which in the opinion of the Governor in Council is an organization which has among its aims, or is being used for, the promotion of a general strike, or of disorder of any kind, or of the spread of sedition, within the Colony. Any association which has been previously proscribed under any repealed regulation made under the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, shall continue to be proscribed.

17. No person shall do any act in furtherance of the objects of any such proscribed organization.

18. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in his possession any badge, ticket or document, or any other thing whatsoever, which purports to have been, or which appears to have been, issued by any such proscribed organization, whether before or after such proscription, or which purports to be, or which appears to be, or which appears to be intended as, evidence of membership of, or any authority from, or any association with, any such proscribed organization.

19. No person shall do any act in furtherance of the promotion of a general strike, or of disorder of any kind, or of the spread of sedition, within the Colony.

20. It shall be lawful for any police officer to seize any thing whatsoever which may appear to belong to, or to be

1938.