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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 16, 1928.
12. Except with the permission of the Captain Superintendent of Police, or in saving life or rescue work at sea, no person shall be allowed to embark on and nothing shall be brought on board any ship after delivery of the certificate required by the fore- going regulations 9 and 10 and before leaving the waters of the Colony, or arrival at the first place of call therein (notified and approved as aforesaid), as the case may be.
13. (1) Every police officer in carrying out or taking part in any search required. or authorised by these regulations shall have power to search any vessel and its stores and equipment, and the master, officers, staff and crew, and their belongings, the passengers and their goods and baggage, and the cargo, and every person and thing on board, and every person who may apparently be about to go on board and everything which apparently is about to be put on board, and may do all such acts and things as may be reasonably necessary in order to carry out such search effectually.
(2) The police officer in charge of any searching party, and any police officer superior to him, shall have power to detain any vessel until in his opinion the searching shall have been completed.
(3) It shall be lawful for the police officer in charge of any searching party, and any officer superior to him, to order that no passenger or thing shall embark or be brought on board without his express consent while the search is proceeding; no person shall act contrary to such order; any such order shall be in force as soon as the same shall have been communicated to the master or other person in charge of the vessel.
(4) No person shall obstruct any such search or detention.
14. Every owner, agent, charterer, licensee, master, officer, member of staff, member of crew and other person shall render every assistance and give all necessary orders and facilities in his power to the police in their searches and in all their acts preliminary or incidental thereto and in the carrying out of these regulations, and shall use his best endeavours at all times to see that no arms or ammunition are smuggled on board.
15. The Captain Superintendent of Police shall have power, in his discretion, to exempt any vessel from any provision or requirement of these regulations, either gene- rally, or during any period, or on any occasion, and to impose conditions of exemption. Every condition imposed under this regulation shall be duly performed and observed by the grantee.
16. These regulations shall not apply to any vessel being or having the status of a ship of war.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
15th March, 1928.
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
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