REGISTRATION AND CENSUS ORDINANCE
Title
REGISTRATION AND CENSUS ORDINANCE
Description
Registration and Census.
No. 18 of 1844.
An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 16 of 1844, and to establish
a Registry and Census of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hongkong,
18th November, 1844.
WHEREAS it is expedient and required by Her Majesty's Government, that
a census should from time to time be taken of the population of the
Colony of Hongkong, in common with other parts of Her Majesty's dominions,
and whereas to secure tranquillity and good order in the said Colony and
its depen~
dencies, consideration being had of the migratory habit of a portion of
the population,
and to prevent the resort thereto of abandoned characters and of persons
without any
ostensible means of subsistence, it is also expedient that a registry be
established of
persons resident and sojourning therein, and whereas also it is further
deemed fitting
to repeal Ordinance No. 16 of the 21st August-, 1844, passed for the
purpose of such
registration:
ORDINANCE NO. lg Or 1844.
Registration and Census.
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof for the
several purposes
aforesaid that the said Ordinance ,No. 16 of the year 1844 be hereby
repealed and that
there be established in some convenient locality in Victoria an office to
be entitled
'The Census and Registration Ofce,' and that the duties and business of
this office be
discharged by a Registrar and such other officers and assistants and at
such salaries as
the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint subject to Her
Majesty's pleasure.
2. And be it further enacted and ordained that from and after the 1st day
of
January next, all male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, or capable
of earning a livelihood, resident in the Colony of Hongkong, with the
exception of pergons
employed in the civil, military, or naval services of Her Britannic
Majesty, or the
Honorable East India Company, members of the learned professions,
merchants,
shopkeepers, householders, and tenants of the Crown paying an annual rent
of not less
than two hundred and fifty dollars for houses or lands, or persons
possessing a means
of livelihood amounting to the annual sum or value of not less than five
hundred dollars
a year shall be required once in every year to appear personally at the
said office or at
such branch offices as may be from time to time established by the
Governor and
Executive Council, to be there registered in manner hereinafter mentioned
unless where
it shall appear advisable to the said Registrar General to dispense with
the said
personal appearance of any one hereby required to be registered.
$. And be it further enacted and ordained that if upon enquiry it shall
appear to
the Registrar General or such other officers so to be appointed as
aforesaid that the
said applicant is a fit and proper person to be permitted to reside in
the said Colony it
shall be lawful for the said Registrar General or such other officers to
be appointed as
aforesaid to grant him a registration ticket without any-fee or charge
whatsoever
Provided, also, that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the said
Registrar General or
such other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the said
unregistered person is a
vagabond or bad character or without visible means of subsistence the
said Registrar
General or such other officers as aforesaid shall have full power and
authority to pro-
hibit him from residing in the said Colony, unless such person shall have
been born
within the Colony in which case be she or they shall be dealt with
according to law
provided in such cases.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained that it shall and may be lawful
to and
for the said Registrar General, for the more efEoctual discharge of his
duty, by and with
the direction of the Governor in Council, to divide the said Island into
districts for the
purpose of registry and to proceed to register one or more of such
districts oil such days
and at such hours as shall appear fitting for such purpose.
5. And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration
ticket shall
contain the name of applicant and the number of the ticket and the date
at which it is
granted and such other particulars as to the aforesaid Registrar General
may seem fit,
and that in the exercise of such discretion the said Registrar -General
shall have regard
to the particulars requisite to the formation of the returns of
population required from
Registration
o%ce to be
established.
Persons required
to appear
personally before
Reglatrqr,
Tiekott to be
granted ox.
otherwise.
Registrar by
direction of
Governor in
Council to divide
the Island into
districts, and
register one or
more at different
periods.
Ticket.
ORDINANCE No. 18 of 184.
Registration and Census.
the Colonies of Great Britain by the Home Government: Provided always
that as
regards persons of Chinese origin or extraction the name of the applicant
shall be in
the Chinese character also.
f.
Ticket to g, And be it further enacted and ordained that the said
registration ticket shall
continue to force
for one year. continue in force for the period of one year from the date
thereof and no longer and
that on the expiration thereof any person who shall not forthwith apply to
be again
registered and obtain a fresh registration ticket shall be liable to the
penalties inflicted
by the provisions of this Ordinance on persons residing in the said Colony
without
being registered.
xeaamen ~ 7. And be it further enacted and ordained that no person being a
headman
contractors, &c.,
prohibited from contractor, or other shall hire any or other persons
coolies or workmen, not being pre.
employing any
person
unproiaea with viously resident in the Colony for the purpose of executing
any work or service in the trution
ticket said Colony, unless such person or coolie or workman not
hereinbefore excepted shall
have previously, obtained a registration ticket and shall produce the same
to the
person so hiring him or them.
Penalty ibr $, And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person
shall knowingly
knowingiy
unregistered
1retain in his or her employment or harbour or suffer to reside in his or
her house or on
persons. his or her premises any person hereby required to be registered
who shall not be duly
registered according to the provisions of this Ordinance he shall be
liable to a penalty
not exceeding twenty dollars.
Penalty for Q, And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person
liable to be registered
neglecting to
register. under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be found residing
in the said. Colony for
the space of twenty-four hours without having been registered he shall be
liable to a
Exemptions. penalty not exceeding twenty dollars: Provided always that
nothing herein contained
shall be construed to extend to persons employed on board vessels of war
or government
transports under any circumstances, nor to officers or seamen belonging
to merchant
vessels lying in the harbour or roads of Victoria who previous to landing
shall obtain
from the master or officer in charge of the said vessel leave to go
ashore in writing
under his hand.
Tepos to send 10. And be it further enacted and ordained that all headmen
or tapes shall be
in returns when
called for: bound to give a return when called upon by the said
registering officer of the boundaries
of their districts, of the names and occupation together with the
particulars hereinbefore
set forth o£ all persons residing in their respective villages or
districts and an account
of the sex, ages and country of all such persons and shall specify in the
said return the
number o£ the house according to the register and the number of persons
residing in
each house and every such tape shall he liable to a penalty not exceeding
twenty dollars
for each and every person hereby required to be registered found residing
within their
respective villages or districts without being duly registered as
aforesaid or whom they
shall not have reported to or caused to be brought before the said
registering officer,
or who shall fail after due requisition to make every such return.as is
hereby required.
census. 11. And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes
of the census
the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as
aforesaid shall
ORDINANCE No. 18 0F 1844.
Registration and Census.
when and so often as he may be directed by the Governor and Executive
Council cause
to be delivered or left at the residence or place o£ business of any
householder or
householders a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be
therein named
with the names and numbers of persons in his or their employment or
residing within
his or their house or houses or on his or their premises and shall in
every such return ]Return to be
distinguish and describe the sex country and occupation of every person
so resident as no saniaora.
also whether any and which of them be either aliens or resident strangers
and that on
or after the said day named in the said blank return the said householder
or householders
is or are hereby required to transmit the said return or deliver the same
on demand
within five days after its being left at ouch residence or place of
business as aforesaid '
so filled up to the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be
appointed as
aforesaid and on failure to do so the said householder or householders
shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars each.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained that all lighters bumboats
ferry boats Boats, &e. to no
registered. -
and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours and waters of this
Colony shall be
duly registered with the number and description of the crew and of the
persons living
therein by the said registering officer or such other officer so to be
appointed as
aforesaid the said particulars to be entered in a book to be kept for
that purpose and
a certificate of such registry shall be given to the master or headman of
such lighter
bumboat ferry boat or other vessel the number of such registry to be
legibly painted on
each aide and on the stern of such lighter bumboat ferry boat or other
vessel.
1$. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person not having
pre-
viously obtained such certificate of registry and not having painted the
number on
such lighter bumboat ferry boat or other vessel as is hereinbefore
provided shall let
or hire or cause to be let or hired any such lighter bumboat ferry boat
or other
vessel within the waters of the said Colony or shall show a false
certificate of
registry or one granted for another vessel, or shall permit or connive at
the said
certificate being made use of for another vessel, or shall paint .or
exhibit a false
number on the said lighter bumboat ferry boat or other vessel he shall
for every such
offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and be
liable to confis-
cation of the boat on non-payment of the fine.
14. And be it further enacted and ordained that all masters of Chinese
vessels
frequenting the waters of this Colony shall report themselves immediately
upon their
arrival in such waters and previous 'to their departure to the
registering officer who
shall grant them a certificate of entry or clearance or if he see cause
to withhold the
certificate of clearance, he shall report the same to Government.
16. And be it further enacted anal ordained that every master of a
Chinese vessel
who shall not conform to the provisions of the section hereinbeforo last
mentioned shall
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. `
16. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person shall
wilfully conceal
or falsify the particulars of any information required of him for the
purposes of this
Ordinance or shall on applying to be registered give a false name or
description or shall
Penalty on
Voat-owners, &c.
Masters of
Chinese vessels
to report
themselves.
Penalty for
neglect.
Penalty on'
evasiomof £his
Ordinance in ' -
cases not
otherwise -
provided for.
ORDINANCE No. 18 of 1844.
Registration and Census.
transfer or lend his registration ticket to any other person or shall
wear or show the
registration ticket of another as his own for the purpose of evading the
provisions of
this Ordinance, or shall refuse or fail to comply witb any provisions of
this Ordinance
he shall where no other penalty is hereinbefore specially provided be
liable to a penalty
not exceeding fifty dollars.
1'7. And be it further enacted and ordained that in order to provide for
the
changing circumstances of the said Colony it shall and may be lawful from
time to
time for the Governor and Executive Council by proclamation made in the
usual
manner to alter or vary the several provisions of this Ordinance.
1$. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all penalties enforced
by this
Ordinance shall be recovered in a summary manner before any Police
Magistrate and
that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in
default of payment
and on failure o£ any sufficient distress the party shall be liable to
imprisonment with
hard labor for any time not exceeding two calendar months.
Provided always that the penalty of imprisonment shall not in any case
attach to
the violation of any of the provisions hereinbefore contained respecting
the returns to
be made by any householder for the purpose of any census, so required as
hereinbefore
mentioned and it is hereby further ordained and provided that in the
interpretation of
this Ordinance every word importing the singular number only shall extend
and be
General applied to several persons as well as one person and every word
importing the m?.s-
tnterpretatlon. culine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female
as weld as a male unless
when such rule of interpretation shall be inconsistent with the context
of this Ordinance.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1846.]
100
Title.
Preamble.
Registration office to be established.
Persons required to appear personally before Registrar.
Ticket to granted or otherwise.
Registrar by direction of Governor in Council to divide the Island into districts, and register one or more at different periods.
Ticket.
Ticket to continue in force for one year.
Headmen contractors, &c. prohibited from employing any person unprovided with a registration ticket.
Penalty for knowingly retaining unregistered persons.
Penalty for neglecting to register.
Exemptions.
Tepos to send in returns when called for.
Census.
Return to be made by householders.
Boats, &c. to be registered.
Penalty on boat-owners, &c.
Masters of Chinese vessels to report themselves.
Penalty on evasion of this Ordinance in cases not otherwise provided for.
Powers to Governor in Council to vary by proclamation the provisions of this Ordinance.
Recovery of penalty.
General interpretation.
No. 18 of 1844.
An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 16 of 1844, and to establish
a Registry and Census of the Inhabitants of the Island of Hongkong,
18th November, 1844.
WHEREAS it is expedient and required by Her Majesty's Government, that
a census should from time to time be taken of the population of the
Colony of Hongkong, in common with other parts of Her Majesty's dominions,
and whereas to secure tranquillity and good order in the said Colony and
its depen~
dencies, consideration being had of the migratory habit of a portion of
the population,
and to prevent the resort thereto of abandoned characters and of persons
without any
ostensible means of subsistence, it is also expedient that a registry be
established of
persons resident and sojourning therein, and whereas also it is further
deemed fitting
to repeal Ordinance No. 16 of the 21st August-, 1844, passed for the
purpose of such
registration:
ORDINANCE NO. lg Or 1844.
Registration and Census.
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof for the
several purposes
aforesaid that the said Ordinance ,No. 16 of the year 1844 be hereby
repealed and that
there be established in some convenient locality in Victoria an office to
be entitled
'The Census and Registration Ofce,' and that the duties and business of
this office be
discharged by a Registrar and such other officers and assistants and at
such salaries as
the Governor in Council may be pleased to appoint subject to Her
Majesty's pleasure.
2. And be it further enacted and ordained that from and after the 1st day
of
January next, all male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one years and
upwards, or capable
of earning a livelihood, resident in the Colony of Hongkong, with the
exception of pergons
employed in the civil, military, or naval services of Her Britannic
Majesty, or the
Honorable East India Company, members of the learned professions,
merchants,
shopkeepers, householders, and tenants of the Crown paying an annual rent
of not less
than two hundred and fifty dollars for houses or lands, or persons
possessing a means
of livelihood amounting to the annual sum or value of not less than five
hundred dollars
a year shall be required once in every year to appear personally at the
said office or at
such branch offices as may be from time to time established by the
Governor and
Executive Council, to be there registered in manner hereinafter mentioned
unless where
it shall appear advisable to the said Registrar General to dispense with
the said
personal appearance of any one hereby required to be registered.
$. And be it further enacted and ordained that if upon enquiry it shall
appear to
the Registrar General or such other officers so to be appointed as
aforesaid that the
said applicant is a fit and proper person to be permitted to reside in
the said Colony it
shall be lawful for the said Registrar General or such other officers to
be appointed as
aforesaid to grant him a registration ticket without any-fee or charge
whatsoever
Provided, also, that if upon enquiry it shall appear to the said
Registrar General or
such other officers so to be appointed as aforesaid that the said
unregistered person is a
vagabond or bad character or without visible means of subsistence the
said Registrar
General or such other officers as aforesaid shall have full power and
authority to pro-
hibit him from residing in the said Colony, unless such person shall have
been born
within the Colony in which case be she or they shall be dealt with
according to law
provided in such cases.
4. And be it further enacted and ordained that it shall and may be lawful
to and
for the said Registrar General, for the more efEoctual discharge of his
duty, by and with
the direction of the Governor in Council, to divide the said Island into
districts for the
purpose of registry and to proceed to register one or more of such
districts oil such days
and at such hours as shall appear fitting for such purpose.
5. And be it further enacted and ordained that the said registration
ticket shall
contain the name of applicant and the number of the ticket and the date
at which it is
granted and such other particulars as to the aforesaid Registrar General
may seem fit,
and that in the exercise of such discretion the said Registrar -General
shall have regard
to the particulars requisite to the formation of the returns of
population required from
Registration
o%ce to be
established.
Persons required
to appear
personally before
Reglatrqr,
Tiekott to be
granted ox.
otherwise.
Registrar by
direction of
Governor in
Council to divide
the Island into
districts, and
register one or
more at different
periods.
Ticket.
ORDINANCE No. 18 of 184.
Registration and Census.
the Colonies of Great Britain by the Home Government: Provided always
that as
regards persons of Chinese origin or extraction the name of the applicant
shall be in
the Chinese character also.
f.
Ticket to g, And be it further enacted and ordained that the said
registration ticket shall
continue to force
for one year. continue in force for the period of one year from the date
thereof and no longer and
that on the expiration thereof any person who shall not forthwith apply to
be again
registered and obtain a fresh registration ticket shall be liable to the
penalties inflicted
by the provisions of this Ordinance on persons residing in the said Colony
without
being registered.
xeaamen ~ 7. And be it further enacted and ordained that no person being a
headman
contractors, &c.,
prohibited from contractor, or other shall hire any or other persons
coolies or workmen, not being pre.
employing any
person
unproiaea with viously resident in the Colony for the purpose of executing
any work or service in the trution
ticket said Colony, unless such person or coolie or workman not
hereinbefore excepted shall
have previously, obtained a registration ticket and shall produce the same
to the
person so hiring him or them.
Penalty ibr $, And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person
shall knowingly
knowingiy
unregistered
1retain in his or her employment or harbour or suffer to reside in his or
her house or on
persons. his or her premises any person hereby required to be registered
who shall not be duly
registered according to the provisions of this Ordinance he shall be
liable to a penalty
not exceeding twenty dollars.
Penalty for Q, And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person
liable to be registered
neglecting to
register. under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be found residing
in the said. Colony for
the space of twenty-four hours without having been registered he shall be
liable to a
Exemptions. penalty not exceeding twenty dollars: Provided always that
nothing herein contained
shall be construed to extend to persons employed on board vessels of war
or government
transports under any circumstances, nor to officers or seamen belonging
to merchant
vessels lying in the harbour or roads of Victoria who previous to landing
shall obtain
from the master or officer in charge of the said vessel leave to go
ashore in writing
under his hand.
Tepos to send 10. And be it further enacted and ordained that all headmen
or tapes shall be
in returns when
called for: bound to give a return when called upon by the said
registering officer of the boundaries
of their districts, of the names and occupation together with the
particulars hereinbefore
set forth o£ all persons residing in their respective villages or
districts and an account
of the sex, ages and country of all such persons and shall specify in the
said return the
number o£ the house according to the register and the number of persons
residing in
each house and every such tape shall he liable to a penalty not exceeding
twenty dollars
for each and every person hereby required to be registered found residing
within their
respective villages or districts without being duly registered as
aforesaid or whom they
shall not have reported to or caused to be brought before the said
registering officer,
or who shall fail after due requisition to make every such return.as is
hereby required.
census. 11. And be it further enacted and ordained that for the purposes
of the census
the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be appointed as
aforesaid shall
ORDINANCE No. 18 0F 1844.
Registration and Census.
when and so often as he may be directed by the Governor and Executive
Council cause
to be delivered or left at the residence or place o£ business of any
householder or
householders a blank return to be filled up before a certain day to be
therein named
with the names and numbers of persons in his or their employment or
residing within
his or their house or houses or on his or their premises and shall in
every such return ]Return to be
distinguish and describe the sex country and occupation of every person
so resident as no saniaora.
also whether any and which of them be either aliens or resident strangers
and that on
or after the said day named in the said blank return the said householder
or householders
is or are hereby required to transmit the said return or deliver the same
on demand
within five days after its being left at ouch residence or place of
business as aforesaid '
so filled up to the said Registrar General or such other officer so to be
appointed as
aforesaid and on failure to do so the said householder or householders
shall be liable
to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars each.
12. And be it further enacted and ordained that all lighters bumboats
ferry boats Boats, &e. to no
registered. -
and other vessels plying for hire within the harbours and waters of this
Colony shall be
duly registered with the number and description of the crew and of the
persons living
therein by the said registering officer or such other officer so to be
appointed as
aforesaid the said particulars to be entered in a book to be kept for
that purpose and
a certificate of such registry shall be given to the master or headman of
such lighter
bumboat ferry boat or other vessel the number of such registry to be
legibly painted on
each aide and on the stern of such lighter bumboat ferry boat or other
vessel.
1$. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person not having
pre-
viously obtained such certificate of registry and not having painted the
number on
such lighter bumboat ferry boat or other vessel as is hereinbefore
provided shall let
or hire or cause to be let or hired any such lighter bumboat ferry boat
or other
vessel within the waters of the said Colony or shall show a false
certificate of
registry or one granted for another vessel, or shall permit or connive at
the said
certificate being made use of for another vessel, or shall paint .or
exhibit a false
number on the said lighter bumboat ferry boat or other vessel he shall
for every such
offence forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and be
liable to confis-
cation of the boat on non-payment of the fine.
14. And be it further enacted and ordained that all masters of Chinese
vessels
frequenting the waters of this Colony shall report themselves immediately
upon their
arrival in such waters and previous 'to their departure to the
registering officer who
shall grant them a certificate of entry or clearance or if he see cause
to withhold the
certificate of clearance, he shall report the same to Government.
16. And be it further enacted anal ordained that every master of a
Chinese vessel
who shall not conform to the provisions of the section hereinbeforo last
mentioned shall
forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars. `
16. And be it further enacted and ordained that if any person shall
wilfully conceal
or falsify the particulars of any information required of him for the
purposes of this
Ordinance or shall on applying to be registered give a false name or
description or shall
Penalty on
Voat-owners, &c.
Masters of
Chinese vessels
to report
themselves.
Penalty for
neglect.
Penalty on'
evasiomof £his
Ordinance in ' -
cases not
otherwise -
provided for.
ORDINANCE No. 18 of 1844.
Registration and Census.
transfer or lend his registration ticket to any other person or shall
wear or show the
registration ticket of another as his own for the purpose of evading the
provisions of
this Ordinance, or shall refuse or fail to comply witb any provisions of
this Ordinance
he shall where no other penalty is hereinbefore specially provided be
liable to a penalty
not exceeding fifty dollars.
1'7. And be it further enacted and ordained that in order to provide for
the
changing circumstances of the said Colony it shall and may be lawful from
time to
time for the Governor and Executive Council by proclamation made in the
usual
manner to alter or vary the several provisions of this Ordinance.
1$. And be it further enacted and ordained, that all penalties enforced
by this
Ordinance shall be recovered in a summary manner before any Police
Magistrate and
that one moiety thereof shall go and be paid to the informer and in
default of payment
and on failure o£ any sufficient distress the party shall be liable to
imprisonment with
hard labor for any time not exceeding two calendar months.
Provided always that the penalty of imprisonment shall not in any case
attach to
the violation of any of the provisions hereinbefore contained respecting
the returns to
be made by any householder for the purpose of any census, so required as
hereinbefore
mentioned and it is hereby further ordained and provided that in the
interpretation of
this Ordinance every word importing the singular number only shall extend
and be
General applied to several persons as well as one person and every word
importing the m?.s-
tnterpretatlon. culine gender only shall extend and be applied to a female
as weld as a male unless
when such rule of interpretation shall be inconsistent with the context
of this Ordinance.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1846.]
100
Title.
Preamble.
Registration office to be established.
Persons required to appear personally before Registrar.
Ticket to granted or otherwise.
Registrar by direction of Governor in Council to divide the Island into districts, and register one or more at different periods.
Ticket.
Ticket to continue in force for one year.
Headmen contractors, &c. prohibited from employing any person unprovided with a registration ticket.
Penalty for knowingly retaining unregistered persons.
Penalty for neglecting to register.
Exemptions.
Tepos to send in returns when called for.
Census.
Return to be made by householders.
Boats, &c. to be registered.
Penalty on boat-owners, &c.
Masters of Chinese vessels to report themselves.
Penalty on evasion of this Ordinance in cases not otherwise provided for.
Powers to Governor in Council to vary by proclamation the provisions of this Ordinance.
Recovery of penalty.
General interpretation.
Abstract
100
Title.
Preamble.
Registration office to be established.
Persons required to appear personally before Registrar.
Ticket to granted or otherwise.
Registrar by direction of Governor in Council to divide the Island into districts, and register one or more at different periods.
Ticket.
Ticket to continue in force for one year.
Headmen contractors, &c. prohibited from employing any person unprovided with a registration ticket.
Penalty for knowingly retaining unregistered persons.
Penalty for neglecting to register.
Exemptions.
Tepos to send in returns when called for.
Census.
Return to be made by householders.
Boats, &c. to be registered.
Penalty on boat-owners, &c.
Masters of Chinese vessels to report themselves.
Penalty on evasion of this Ordinance in cases not otherwise provided for.
Powers to Governor in Council to vary by proclamation the provisions of this Ordinance.
Recovery of penalty.
General interpretation.
Title.
Preamble.
Registration office to be established.
Persons required to appear personally before Registrar.
Ticket to granted or otherwise.
Registrar by direction of Governor in Council to divide the Island into districts, and register one or more at different periods.
Ticket.
Ticket to continue in force for one year.
Headmen contractors, &c. prohibited from employing any person unprovided with a registration ticket.
Penalty for knowingly retaining unregistered persons.
Penalty for neglecting to register.
Exemptions.
Tepos to send in returns when called for.
Census.
Return to be made by householders.
Boats, &c. to be registered.
Penalty on boat-owners, &c.
Masters of Chinese vessels to report themselves.
Penalty on evasion of this Ordinance in cases not otherwise provided for.
Powers to Governor in Council to vary by proclamation the provisions of this Ordinance.
Recovery of penalty.
General interpretation.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/22
Edition
1890
Volume
v1
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 18 of 1844
Number of Pages
5
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“REGISTRATION AND CENSUS ORDINANCE,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed January 6, 2025, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/22.
