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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 25, 1940.

Deserters from ships.

Amendment of the

Colonial Air

Application of Acts) Order, 1937.

41. Any person lawfully engaged to serve on board any ship belonging to, or chartered or requisitioned by, or on behalf of. His Majesty, who in this Colony is, by virtue of section two hundred and twenty-one of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, guilty of the offence of desertion or of absence without leave, may, notwithstanding anything contained in that Act, be conveyed on board his ship by, or under the direction of, any one or more of the following persons, that is to say, the master of the ship, the mate of the ship, the person having the management of the ship, any officer of police, any commissioned officer of His Majesty's forces and any superintendent within the meaning of the said Act.

42.-(1) The power of the Governor under paragraph 4 of the First Schedule to the Colonial Air Navigation Navigation (Application of Acts) Order. 1937, to regulate or prohibit by order the navigation of aircraft shall be exercisable in relation to the navigation of aircraft registered in this Colony over any area outside this Colony, as it is exercisable in relation to the navigation of any aircraft over this Colony, and the said paragraph shall have effect as if it enabled the Governor to make, in au order under that paragraph, such provision with respect to incidental and supplementary matters as appears to him to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.

(2) In addition to the provisions authorized by the said paragraph 4. an order under that paragraph may, for the purpose of securing compliance with the order, contain provi- sions authorizing any commissioned officer in His Majesty's forces or any person acting under the orders of any such officer to fire at any aircraft that flies or attempts to fly in contravention of the order.

(8) Paragraph 11 of the First Schedule to the Colonial Air Navigation (Application of Acts) Order, 1937 (which enables a person alleged to be guilty of an offence under the Acts or under any Order in Council or regulations made thereunder to be tried in any place where he is for the time being), shall extend to offences under any order made under paragraph 4 of the said Schedule, and accordingly the said paragraph 11 shall have effect as if there were therein inserted after the words "Order in Council" the word "order".

PART V.

Control of

lines of com- munication for defence

purposes.

Traffic on highways.

Transport.

43. A competent authority may, with a view to facilitat- ing any operations of His Majesty's forces or the movement of persons and supplies in connexion with any such operations, give directions for prohibiting or restricting, within such area in this Colony, and for such period, as may be specified in the directions, the use of any dock or harbour or any highway, railway or inland waterway.

44. Without prejudice to any other of these regulations, the Governor may by order provide for the regulation of traffic on highways, and, without prejudice to the generality of the power aforesaid, any such order may in particular provide

(1) for determining the routes to be followed by any particular class of vehicles proceeding on highways, either

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