593786-1939-Emergency-Powers-Order-in-Council-1939--Defence-Regulations-1939 — Page 3

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 26, 1939.

No. 31 of

(4) The Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, shall apply to Ordinance the interpretation of these regulations, and of any orders or 1911. rules made thereunder, as it applies to the interpretation of an Ordinance, and for the purposes of Part III of the said Ordinance, these regulations and such orders and rules as aforesaid shall be deemed to be Ordinances.

(5) Any reference in any document to these regulations or to any of them shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as a reference to these regulations or to that regulation, as amended by any subsequent regulations made. under the Emergency Powers Order in Council, 1939, er any Order in Council made under subsection (1) of section four of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939.

3.-(1) The Competent Authority shall be the person Competent appointed by the Governor in writing for the purposes of all authority. or any of the regulations in which such expression occurs, and any person so appointed is in these regulations referred to as the Competent Authority.

(2) Where the holder of a designated office has been appointed to be the Competent Authority, then, unless express provision is made to the contrary, the appointment shall be deemed to extend to the person for the time being performing the duties of the office designated.

4. An “ authorized officer means any officer of police, Authorized

and also the following persons--

(a) for the purposes of all or any of these regulations, any public officer authorized in that behalf by the Governor; (b) for the purposes of all or any of these regulations, any person, or member of a class of persons, performing duties of a public nature, authorized in that behalf by the Governor;

(c) for the purposes of regulations 7, 31, 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39, 59, 62, 74, 78, a person holding a commission in any of His Majesty's forces.

officer.

PART II

Censorship and the control and suppression of publications, writings, maps, plans, photographs, communications

and means of communication.

ment of censor and

5.--(1) The Governor may appoint a censor of postal Appoint- matter and telegrams and such number of assistant and deputy assistant censors as he shall think fit, and the word censor in censorship. these regulations includes any assistant censor so appointed

(2) The Governor may by warrant under his hand authorize the Postmaster General and any person in charge of cable and radio stations to detain and produce to the censor all postal packets and telegrams coming into their possession either for transmission or delivery.

(3) The censor, or any person authorized by him, may open, examine, censor or detain either permanently or for so long a period as he may deem necessary any postal packet or telegram of any description whatsoever which may be in course of, or intended for, transmission to, from or through this Colony.

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