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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 25, 1938.

New Part II for Ordinance

No. 3 of 1934.

4. The Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1934, is amended by the insertion, immediately after section 5, of the following heading and sections, as Part II thereof:

Definition.

4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 17.

Exemp- tions.

Return of certain particulars to be made to Commis- sioner of Police. Schedule.

Form No. 2,

Verification, etc., of returns.

PART II.

6. In this Part, "British subject' means a male person of or over the age of eighteen years who is a British subject within the meaning of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914, and has not attained the age of fifty-five years.

7.-(1) The following persons shall be exempt from the following provisions of this Part:-

(a) persons of Chinese race;

(b) members of His Majesty's regular naval, military or air forces and the Hong Kong Police Force.

(2) The Governor in Council may by notification in the Gazette exempt any person or member of a class of persons from the following provisions of this Part, and may revoke any such exemption.

8. (1) Subject to the provisious of section 7, every British subject shall make and sign a return, to the best of his knowledge and belief correct, in Form No. 2 in the Schedule, of the information and particulars specified in the said form, and shall deliver the return to the Commissioner of Police.

(2) The return shall be so delivered―

(a) by a person who is in the Colony at the date of the commencement of this Ordinance, within two months there- after;

(b) by a person who arrives in the Colony after the commencement of this Ordinance, within two months from the date of such arrival;

(c) by a person who ceases to be an exempted person within the meaning of section 7, within two months from the date on which the exemption ceased;

(d) by a person who, without making a return, leaves the Colony before the expiration of any period within which. he is required by this section to make it, and afterwards returns to the Colony, within two months from the date of his last arrival in the Colony.

9. If in any case it appears to the Commissioner of Police that any return has not been duly made or that any return is incomplete or incorrect or requires verification, and that it cannot be made, completed, corrected or verified without the attendance of the person concerned, the Com- missioner of Police may in his absolute discretion by a notice served on such person require his attendance at police head- quarters, and every person whose attendance is so required shall attend at police headquarters on the date and at the time specified in the notice and answer truthfully to the best of his knowledge and belief such questions as may be addressed to him by a police officer for the purpose of making, completing, correcting or verifying the return.

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