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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1929.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900, s. 16, and substitu- tion of new section.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900, s. 17A.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 11 of 1900, ss. 19, 20 and 20A, and insertion of new s. 19.

(3) No person whose period of engagement is terminated under sub-section (2) shall be entitled to any pay or compensation other than the pay earned up to the time when the engagement was terminated.

6. Section 16 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is substituted there- for :-- Free passages for European subordinate officers and constables.

16. On the completion of each period of four years resident service, every European subordinate officer and constable shall, subject to the exigencies of the service, be entitled to

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free passage to such port in his native country as the Governor may direct or to some other port approved by the Governor: pro- vided that it shall be lawful for the Governor, in his discretion, to grant to any European subordinate officer or constable a free passage to such port on the completion of a period of less than four years resident service.

7. Section 17A of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, is amended by the insertion of the following words at the beginning thereof :-

The Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police, Divisional Super- intendents, Superintendents, Assistant Super- intendents and Probationers, and ".

8. Sections 19, 20 and 20A of the Police Force Ordi- nance, 1900, are repealed and the following section is inserted immediately after section 18:-

Regulations.

19.-(1) Subject to the provisions of section 17, it shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police to make such regulations as he may consider necessary for--

(a) the general government and discipline

of the force;

(b) regulating the internal economy of

the force; and

(e) carrying out the daily routine of the

force.

(2) All regulations made under this section shall be published by the Inspector General of Police in the form of Police General Orders and shall come into effect on the date of such publication, unless some other date be specified in any such order.

(3) It shall not be necessary to publish in the Gazette any regulations made under this section.

(4) All regulations made under this section shall be circulated to the members of the Excentive Commeil, and it shall be lawful for the Governor in Commeil to rescind or amend in any manner any such regulation. Any such rescission or amendment shall be published in the same manner as the regulation rescinded or amended was published, and the regulation shall be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from and including the date of the publication of the rescission or amend- ment, unless some other date is specified in such publication.

(5) In any proceedings, any regulation made under this section may be proved by the production of a copy of the Police General Orders in which such regulation was published. certified under the hand of the Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police or a Divisional Superintendent, and upon the production of any such certified copy it shall, nutil the contrary be proved, be pre- sumed that such regulation was duly made and was not disallowed.