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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.

PART I.

Citation

and date of coming into operation.

Interpreta- tion.

Ordinance No. 2 of 1933.

Ordinance No. 23 of 1913.

Preliminary.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Defence Regulations, 1940, and shall come into operation on the date of their publication in the Gazette.

2.-(1) For the purpose of these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires --

“aircraft "has the same meaning as in any Order in Council for the time being in force under Part I of the Air Navigation Acts. 1920 and 1936:

"ammunition " has the same meaning as in the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1933:

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Dominion means a Dominion within the meaning of the Statute of Westminster, 1931, and includes any territory administered by His Majesty's Government in such ä Dominion;

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'Dominion ship or aireraft" means a British ship or aircraft registered in any Dominion other than Newfoundland, or in India, Burma or Southern Rhodesia, not being a ship or aircraft which is for the time being placed at the disposal of, or chartered by or on behalf of, His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, and Dominion ship" and "Dominion aircraft" shall be construed accordingly;

enemy alien" means a person who, not being either a British subject or a British-protected person, possesses the nationality of a State at war with His Majesty:

essential services means such services as may for the time being be declared by order of the Governor to be of public utility or to be essential for the prosecution of the war or essential to the life of the community;

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explosive" has the same meaning as in the Explosive Substances Ordinance, 1913;

weapon of

"firearm means any lethal firearm or other any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, or any part thereof:

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́land ** includes land covered with water and parts of houses or buildings;

officer of police means a police officer of or above the rank of lance-sergeant:

"photographs" includes any photographic plates, photo- graphic films or other sensitized articles which have been exposed in a camera, whether they have been developed or not;