582256-1940-Defence-Regulations-1940 — Page 16

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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.

Display of flags, etc.

Unofficial uniforms,

etc.

Processions and meetings.

purposes of the order (including provisions for securing that documents, pictorial representations, photographs or cine- matograph films shall, before publication, be submitted or exhibited to such authority or person as may be specified in the order).

(3) Where any person is convicted on indictment of an offence against this regulation by reason of his having published a newspaper, the Governor may by order direct that, during such period as may be specified in the order, that person shall not publish any newspaper in this Colony.

(4) In this regulation-

(a) the expression "public opinion" includes the opinion of any section of the public;

(b) the expression "cinematograph film" includes a sound track and any other article on which sounds have been recorded for the purpose of their being reproduced in con- nexion with the exhibition of such a film;

(c) the expression "publication" means, in relation to a cinematograph film, the exhibition of the film to the public, and includes the mechanical or electrical reproduction of any sounds in connexion with the exhibition of the film as afore- said; and

(d) the expression "newspaper" includes any journal, magazine or other periodical publication.

23.A. The Governor may by order prohibit the display by any person in public of any flag, banner or emblem as to which the Governor is satisfied that the display thereof as aforesaid would be likely to cause a disturbance of the public order or to promote disaffection; and any such order may be made so as to apply either generally or to a specified area.

24.--(1) The Governor may by order prohibit the wear- ing or display by any person in publie of any distinctive dress or article of apparel or any emblem, being a dress, article or emblem as to which the Governor is satisfied that the wearing or display thereof as aforesaid would be likely to cause a disturbance of public order or to promote disaffection; and any such order may be made so as to apply either generally or to a specified area.

(2) For the purposes of this regulation, a dress, an article of apparel or an emblem shall be deemed to be worn or dis- played in public if it is worn or displayed so as to be visible to a person in any place to which the public have access.

25.-(1) The Governor, if satisfied, with respect to any area in this Colony, that the holding of public processions or of any class of such processions in that area would be likely to cause a disturbance of public order or to promote dis- affection. may by order prohibit, for such period as may be specified in the order, the holding in that area of precessions or processions of that class, as the case may be.

(2) The Governor may give directions prohibiting the holding of any meeting as to which he is satisfied that the holding thereof would be likely to cause a disturbance of public order or to promote disaffection.

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