THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT. GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1940.
No. 994.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1922.
(EMERGENCY
REGULATIONS).
WHEREAS by section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, it is provided among other things, that on any occasion which the Governor in Council may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public danger, he may make any regulations whatsoever he may consider desirable in the public interest:
AND WHEREAS the Governor in Council considers that such an occasion of emergency or public danger continues to exist :
NOW THEREFORE the Governor in Council amends the regulations made under the said section 2 and published in the Gazette of the 7th October, 1938, as Government Noti- fication No. 775, as subsequently amended, as follows :--
Amendment.
The following new regulations shall be inserted in the said regulations after regulation 4A published as Govern- ment Notification No. 743 in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 29th June, 1940:-
4B. Subject to any general or special directions of the Governor the Commissioner of Police and any police officer authorized by him, either generally or specially, shall have power by order to set a time limit for compliance with any order made under regulation 4A.
4C. Every person who disobeys or fails to comply with any order made under regulation 4A or 4B shall be deemed to have contravened the regulation under which the order was made and shall be liable to the penalties provided by section 3 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922.
4D. No woman or child under the age of eighteen years, whether or not in possession of a passport or travel document valid under section 9 of the Immigration and Passports Ordinance, 1934, shall enter or land in the Colony, without a special entry or landing permit issued by or under the authority of the Commissioner of Police.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
4th September, 1940.
T. MEGARRY,
Clerk of Councils.
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