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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 19, 1940. 1607

(b) he may, in the discretion of the competent authority, be detained in police custody until an opportunity occurs of returning him to his port of embarkation or to the country of which he is a national or of sending him to his destination.

7.--(1) The master of a ship or pilot of an aircraft shall not permit any person to disembark in contravention of the provisions of regulation 3.

(2) It shall be a defence to a prosecution for a con- travention of this regulation that the master or pilot took every reasonable precaution to prevent the disembarkation, but no defence to prove that he did not do anything to facilitate such disembarkation.

8. If any person disembarks in this Colony from a ship or aircraft in contravention of regulation 3, the master of the ship or the pilot of the aircraft shall be bound, upon the order of the competent authority, to re-embark such person in his ship or aircraft, either forthwith or after such period of detention as is mentioned in regulation 6 14), and the owners, charterers and agents of such ship or aircraft, and the master or pilot thereof, as the case may be, shall be jointly and severally liable to pay to the competent authority all costs and charges incurred in respect of the maintenance of such person and of sending him to the country of which he is a national or his port of embarkation or his destination, All such costs and charges shall be deemed to be a debt due to the Crown and may be recovered by the Treasurer in the same manner as Crown debts are recovered under the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875.

9. The provisions of the Defence Regulations, 1940, and any regulations amending or substituted for the same for the time being in force shall apply for the purpose of the enforcement of these regulations and otherwise in relation thereto as if any reference in those regulations included a reference to these regulations.

Published by His Excellency's Command.

19th November, 1940.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

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