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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 21, 1917.

II.-Regulations referring to Indians.

1. No Indian other than a bona fide labourer leaving India after the date hereof shall enter or attempt to enter the Colony unless he is in possession of a pass- port.

2. No Indian shall leave or attempt to leave the Colony for a destination other than the Federated Malay States, Johore, North Borneo or Sarawak without a passport issued or viséd by the competent authority in the Colony or the Federated Malay States provided that this Regulation shall not apply (a) to any bona fide labourer returning to India; or (b) to natives of Southern India who are bonâ fide labourers proceeding to Kelantan, Kedah or Perlis.

3. No Indian shall leave or attempt to leave the Colony for North Borneo or Sarawak without a pass issued or viséd by the Chief Police Officer of any Settlement of the Colony.

4. Nothing done under the authority of any law for the time being in force relating to the engagement of persons for service on merchant ships shall be deemed to be an offence against these Regulations.

5. Any person guilty of an offence against these Regulations shall be liable on conviction before a Police Court to imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months or to a fine not exceeding eight hun- dred dollars or to both.

6. The fee for a passport issued under these Regulations shall be 50 cents. No fre shall be charged for a visé, or for a pass or visa issued under Regulation 3. 7. For the purpose of these Regulations:---

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Competent authority" means any person authorized by the Governor, or by the Government of the Federated Malay States, to exercise the powers of a competent authority under these Regulations.

'Labourer' means a person who is a servant in husbandry, artificer, miner or domestic servant or otherwise a member of the labouring classes;

Native of Southern India' means a person of the Tamil, Telegu or

Malayalam race.

8. Nothing in these Regulations shall apply to any person whose age is, or

appears to the competent authority to be, less than fifteen years.

of alien

III. Regulations relating to the Landing of Alien Seamen.

1.-(i) An alien, being the master or a member of the crew of a vessel Landing

arriving at any of the ports of Singapore, Penang, Malacca or Labuan seamen or at any place to which these Regulations are applied by order of the Governor, shall not land at such port or place 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 satisfac- torily establishing his nationality or identity, to which passport or document there must be attached a photograph of the alien to whom it relates.

(ii) Where an alien is under the provisions of these Regulations prohibited from landing at any port or place, the Master Attendant or Harbour Master of such port or, in the case of a place to which these Regulations are applied, such other officer as the Governor may appoint in that behalf, may nevertheless grant him temporary permission to land for such purposes and subject to such conditions as the Governor may from time to time prescribe, either generally or as respects any particular port or place or vessel.

2. Any alien committing a breach of any of these Regulations, or failing Penalty.

to comply with any condition imposed on him under these Regula- tions, shall be tried by a Police Court and shall be liable on