THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 20, 1918.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
Public Traffic Regulations.
Naval Examination Service.
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No. 495. The Naval Examination Service having been discontinued, the Public Traffic Regulations which were published in the following notifications in the Gazette are hereby rescinded
No. of Notification.
Date of Gazette.
No. of Notification.
Date of Gazette.
1914. 285.
3rd August,
1914.
1915. 357.
6th August,
1915.
286.
3rd August,
1914.
358.
6th August,
1915.
289.
5th August,
1914.
461.
14th October, 1915.
290.
5th August,
1914.
464.
15th October,
1915.
307.
7th August,
1914.
477.
22nd October,
1915.
309.
10th August,
1914.
515.
26th November, 1915.
310.
11th August, 1914.
368.
25th September, 1914.
1916.
174.
28th April,
1916.
389.
9th October, 1914.
190.
5th May,
1916.
522.
1st December, 1916.
1915.
44.
29th January,
1915.
544.
15th December, 1916.
45.
29th January,
1915.
91.
26th February, 1915.
1917.
21.
19th January,
1917.
116.
17th March,
1915.
99.
16th March,
1917.
215.
14th May,
1915.
299.
2nd July,
1915.
1918. 262.
12th July,
1918.
314.
9th July,
1915.
By order,
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Secretary.
20th December, 1918.
NOTE 1.-The rescission of the Public Traffic Regulations does not affect the operation of the Travellers Restriction Ordinance, 1915, under which a police examination is carried out, and it does not affect the operation of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, under which a control is exercised over imports and exports.
NOTE 2. Attention is drawn to the Port Regulations, 1918, which appear as Notification No. 497 in this number of the Gazette.
NOTE 3.-The following is a very condensed summary of the chief restrictions which still exist on shipping-
(a) Neutral ships fitted with wireless telegraphy apparatus must disconnect their apparatus on arriving within the waters of the Colony, and the master switch or wireless telegraph house must be sealed up by a police officer, and the scal must not be removed without the permission of a police officer.
(b) All ocean going ships on arriving at the port must proceed to one of two anchorages, i.e., Kowloon Bay or South of Stonecutters Island, and there await the arrival of the police. The police call flag ("S" in the International Code of Signals) is to be flown and is not to be taken down without the permission of a police officer.
(c) Except with the permission of a police officer no person is to be allowed to leave any in- coming ship which is subject to police examination until the police examination has been made.
(d) No ocean-going ship may leave the Colony until it has been examined by a police officer. (e) Except with the permission of the Harbour Master no ocean-going ship may enter or
leave the port between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m.
(f) River steamers may enter the port at any hour and may proceed direct to their wharves, but the master must furnish to the police a list of all passengers who would require a police pass to leave the Colony, stating what passports and papers these passengers hold. The master must also detain on board any suspicious persons and any persons whose papers are not clearly in order. If any suspected enemy subjects are on board, the master must signal to the police and not go alongside his wharf without police permission.
(g) The following persons must not leave the Colony without a pass from the police :-
(1) Persons of non-Asiatic race or nationality.
(2) Indians.
(h) Import and export statements must be furnished as heretofore, and no goods may be imported or exported without the permission of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
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