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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 14, 1939.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 288.

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 which 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 by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred by the said section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor in Council hereby amends the regulations made under the said section 2 on 28th September, 1938, and published in the Gazette of 7th October, 1938, as Government Notification No. 775, and subsequently amended, as follows:---

Amendment.

Paragraphs (4) and (5) of regulation 34, as enacted by Government Notification No. 794, published in the Gazette of 12th October, 1938. are rescinded and the following paragraphs are substituted therefor :-

(4) Aliens may be confined in any camp or place estab- lished under paragraph (2), taken from any such camp or place to another, or released subject to such directions as the Commissioner of Police or the Director of Medical Services in his discretion and either personally or by his officers may give for reporting to the police, restriction of movement and otherwise.

(5) The Commissioner of Police, the Director of Medical Services, any public officer authorized, either generally or specially, by the Commissioner of Police or the Director of Medical Services in that behalf and any member of His Majesty's forces so authorized as aforesaid may, using force if necessary, arrest and detain any person who appears to such Commissioner, Director, officer or member of Ilis Majesty's forces to be an alien to whom this regulation applies, and may take such person or direct such person to go to a camp or place established under paragraph (2).

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

11th April, 1939.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.