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1964 Ed.]

Emergency Regulations.

[CAP. 241

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CHAPTER 241.

EMERGENCY REGULATIONS.

To confer on the Governor in Council power to make regulations

on occasions of emergency or public danger,

Originally

5 of 1922. (Cap. 241, 1950.)

5 of 1924.

[28th February, 1922.]

10 of 1925.

8 of 1949.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Emergency Regula- tions Ordinance.

2. (1) 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.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of subsection (1), such regulations may provide for- (Amended, 5 of 1924, s. 9, and 8 of 1949, s. 2)

(a) censorship, and the control and suppression of publica- tions, 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 manu-

facture;

(f) appropriation, control, forfeiture and disposition of prop-

erty, and of the use thereof;

(g) amending any enactment, suspending the operation of any enactment and applying any enactment with or without modification; (Replaced, 8 of 1949, s. 2)

(h) authorizing the entry and search of premises; (Replaced,

8 of 1949, s. 2)

(1) 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; (Replaced, 8 of 1949, s. 2)

(j) 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; (Added, 8 of 1949, s. 2)

40 of 1949.

Short title.

Power to make regulations.