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ORDERS IN COUNCIL
(6) Any Regulations when so approved, and published as provided
by this Order, shall have effect as if contained in this Order.
Pubiicat on of 158.—(1) All Regulations approved under this Order, whether impos-
Reguiations. jng penalties or not, shall be printed, and a printed copy thereof shall be
affixed, and be at all times kept exhibited conspicuously, in the public office
of each Consulate in China and Corea.
(2) Printed copies of the Regulations shall be kept on sale at such
reasonable price as His Majesty’s Minister from time to time directs.
(3) A printed copy of any Regulations purporting to be made under
this Order, and to be certified under the hand of His Majesty’s Minister
in China or Corea, or under the hand and Consular seal of one of His
Majesty’s Consular officers in China and Corea, shall be conclusive evidence
of the due making of such Regulations.
Prison 159. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of
egu a ions. Regulations for the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of
prisons in China or in Corea, for the removal of prisoners from one prison
to another, and for the infliction of corporal or other punishment on
prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison ;
but the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the
printing, affixing, exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of
trial of charges of offences against Regulations, do not apply to Regula¬
tions respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.
IX.—Miscellaneous.
Customs may
be observed.
Customary
powers of
Consular
officers.
Registration
of British
subjects.
' 160. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the Court of the right to
observe, and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of
the benefit of, any reasonable custom existing in China or Corea, unless
this Order contains some express and specific provision incompatible with
the observance thereof.
161. Nothing in this Order shall prevent any Consular officer in
China or Corea from doing anything which His Majesty’s Consuls in the
dominions of any other State in amity with His Majesty are, for the time
being, by law, usage, or sufferance, entitled or enabled to do.
162. —(1) Every British subject resident shall, in January in every
year, register himself at the Consulate of the Consular district within
which he is resident: Provided that—
(a) The registration of a man shall comprise the registration of his
wife, if living with him ; and
(b) The registration of the head of a family shall be deemed to com¬
prise the registration of all females and minors being his rela¬
tives, in whatever degree, living under the same roof with him
at the time of his registration.
(2) The Consular officer may, without fee, register any British sub¬
jects being minors living in the houses of foreigners.
(3) Every British subject arriving at a place in China or Corea
where there is a Consular office, unless borne on the muster-roll of a
British ship there arriving, shall, on the expiration of one month after
arrival, be deemed, for the purposes of this article, to be resident, and
shall register himself accordingly.
(4) A person shall not be required to register himself oftener than
once in a year, reckoned from the 1st January. I
(5) The Consular officer shall yearly give to each person registered
by him a certificate of registration, signed by him and sealed with his
Consular seal.
(6) The name of a wife, if her registration is comprised in tier
husband’s, shall, unless in any case the Consular officer sees good reason
to the contrary, be indorsed on the husband’s certificate. .