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Emergency Regulations.

[САР. 241

CHAPTER 241.

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS.

5 of 1922.

To confer on the Governor in Council power to make Originally

regulations on occasions of emergency or public danger.

[28th February, 1922.]

Fraser

5 of 1922.

8 of 1949. 40 of 1949.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Emergency Short title. Regulations Ordinance.

make

2. (1) On any occasion which the Governor in Coun- Power to cil may consider to be an occasion of emergency or public regulations. danger he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1), such regulations may provide for—

(a) censorship, and the control and suppression of publications, writings, maps, plans, photographs, communications and means of communication; (b) arrest, detention, exclusion and deportation ; (c) control of the harbours, ports and territorial waters

of the Colony, and the movements of vessels; (d) transportation by land, air or water, and the control

of the transport of persons and things;

(e) trading, exportation, importation, production and

manufacture;

(1)

appropriation, control, forfeiture and disposition. of property, and of the use thereof;

(g) amending any enactment, suspending the operation of any enactment and applying any enactment with or without modification;

(h) authorizing the entry and search of premises; (i) empowering such authorities or persons as may be

specified in the regulations to make orders and rules. and to make or issue notices, licences, permits, certificates or other documents for the purposes of the regulations;

() charging, in respect of the grant or issue of any licence, permit, certificate or other document for the purposes of the regulations such fees as may be prescribed by the regulations;

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8 of 1949, s. 2.