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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.

PART IV.

Control of ports and movements of vessels and aircraft.

of the

of Acts)

42.-(1) The power of the Governor under paragraph Amendment 4 of the First Schedule to the Colonial Air Navigation Colonial Air (Application of Acts) Order, 1937, to regulate or prohibit by Navigation order the navigation of aircraft shall be exercisable in relation (Application to the navigation of aircraft registered in this Colony over Order, 1937. 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 an 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.

(3) 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 Y.

Transport.

of traffic

at ports.

48.-(1) Without prejudice to any navigation order, the Control Governor, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient so to do in the interests of public safety, defence or the efficient prosecution of the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, may make provision by order-

(a) for prohibiting or restricting the shipping or unship- ping of articles or persons, or any specified class of articles or persons, at any port in this Colony;

(b) generally for regulating, facilitating or expediting the traffic at any such port;

and an order under this regulation may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the Governor to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.

(2) The reference in this regulation to shipping or unshipping shall be construed as including a reference to embarking or putting on board seaplanes or disembarking or unloading from seaplanes.

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