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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1939.

(a) any property other than land situated in this Colony:

(b) any article on board any vessel or aircraft for the time being within this Colony or the territorial waters thereof; and

(c) any ship or aircraft registered in this Colony, wherever it may be:

and may give such directions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in connexion with the requisition:

Provided that this regulation shall not authorize the requisitioning of anything on board a United Kingdom or Dominion ship or aircraft.

(2) Where the Governor requisitions any property (in- cluding a ship or aircraft) under this regulation. he may use or deal with, or authorize the use of or dealing with, the property for such purpose and in such manner as he thinks expedient 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, and may hold, or sell or otherwise dispose of, the property as if he were the owner thereof.

(3) The Governor, if it appears to him to be necessary for the effectual exercise of his powers under paragraph (1) of this regulation so to do, may, by order made as respects the whole of this Colony or any part thereof—

(a) direct that no person who, at the time when the order takes effect, has in his possession or under his control, at any premises in the area to which the order relates, any such articles as may be described in the order, shall remove the articles, or cause or permit them to be removed, from the premises until the removal of the articles therefrom is permitted by such authority or person as may be specified in the order;

(b) require the owner or occupier of any premises in the said area to send to such authority or person as may be specified in the order a written declaration stating or estimating whether or not, on such date as may be specified in the order, any such articles as aforesaid were or will be on the premises, and, if so, the number or quantity of those articles which was or will be on the premises on that date. according as the order may direct.

(4) An order under this regulation may authorize any person, or any class of person, to perform such functions in connexion with the requisitioning, and may contain such directions, as appear to the Governor to be necessary or expedient.