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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.

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of efficiently performing his duties as such or, as the case may be, of efficiently carrying on his work as a person so engaged:

Provided that a person shall not be guilty of an offence under this regulation by reason only of his taking part in, or peacefully persuading any other person to take part in, a strike.

20.-(1) No person shall

(a) do any act calculated falsely to suggest that he or any other person is or is not acting (either generally or in a particular capacity) in the service, or on behalf, of His Majesty or a foreign Government, or as a member of a police force or fire brigade, or in the service, or on behalf, of an undertaking engaged in the performance of essential services, or

(b) do, in relation to any property, any act calculated falsely to suggest that the property does or does not belong to, or is or is not in his possession or under the control of, His Majesty, or has or has not been classified, selected or appropriated on behalf of His Majesty for any particular purpose, or

(e) do any act whereby there are communicated, or likely to be communicated, to the public or to any section thereof any directions, instructions or information falsely purporting to be duly issued or given for purposes connected with the defence of the realm or the securing of the public safety, or

(d) make any defence signal otherwise than for the purpose for which, or otherwise than in the circumstances in which, the making of that signal is authorized by or on behalf of the Governor, or do any act, or make any statement, having reasonable cause to believe that the act or statement is likely to result in such a signal being made otherwise than for that purpose or otherwise than in those circumstances, or do any act having reasonable cause to believe that the act is likely to be mistaken for the making of such a signal, or

(e) do any act, or make any statement, having reason- able cause to believe that the act or statement is likely to mislead any person in the discharge of any lawful functions in connexion with the defence of the realm or the securing of the public safety:

Provided that the provisions of sub-paragraph (a) of this paragraph shall not apply to anything done by any servant of His Majesty or police constable acting in the course of his duty as such.

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(2) In this regulation the expression "defence signal means any signal authorized by or on behalf of the Governor to be used for any purpose connected with defence or the securing of public safety.

21.—(1) Except in such circumstances as

may be specified by order of the Governor, no alien who is in this Colony at any time when this regulation is in force, shall, while in this Colony during the continuance in force of this regulation, assume or use or purport to assume for any purpose any name other than that by which he was ordinarily known immediately before this regulation came into force.