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INTERIM GENERAL RULES CONCERNING INSPECTION OF ENTRY AND EXIT TRAINS, TRAIN CREW, PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE

    1. These General Rules are formulated to unity the inspection work
relating to the entry and exit trains, train crew, passengers, luggage, and
articles passengers carry along in order to ensure the safety of driving, to
maintain the public order in the border areas, to prevent epidemic diseases
from spreading, and to suppress smuggling.

    2. The following government organs shall, in accordance with their
respective competent scope of operations, carry out inspections, at stations
in the country's border areas, of the entry and exit trains, train crew,
passengers, luggage, and articles passengers carry along.

    (1) Public security organs: It shall be responsible for inspecting
passengers'passports and other certificates, for safeguarding the operations
on trains, and for maintaining the public order in the country's border areas;
shall work in cooperation with the Customs Office in inspecting trains, train
crew, passengers, luggage, and articles passengers carry along; and, when
necessity arises, shall inspect certain suspicious passengers separately.

    (2) Quarantine organs: It shall be responsible for inspection and
prevention of diseases and epidemic diseases on trains and among train crew
and passengers.

    (3) Customs offices: It shall be responsible for inspecting trains, train
crew, passengers, luggage, and articles passengers carry along, for smuggled
goods; and when necessary, it shall inspect passengers suspicious of smuggling
individually.

    Other government organs, unless specially authorized by the Government
Administration Council, are not permitted to conduct inspections.

    3. To carry out the inspection of the entry and exit trains, train crew,
passengers, luggage, and articles passengers carry along, the railway
authorities shall notify all inspection units concerned to effect a
coordinated inspection at a specified time in accordance with the stipulations
in the preceding article; if no special situation occurs, the inspection shall
be made, in principle, just once.

    4. In principle, inspections are not carried out on board the trains; when
necessity arises, however, a coordinated inspection shall be carried out on
board the trains by the public security organ, the Customs office and the
quarantine organ; the working procedures for such a coordinated inspection
shall be worked out by the organs concerned through consultation.

    5. The inspection of foreign diplomatic personnel shall be carried out in
accordance with the pertinent provisions promulgated by the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs under the Central People's Government.

    6. In principle, inspections are not carried out on board the domestic
trains, except by the public security organ; however, inspections shall be
carried out by the organs concerned through the railway authorities under
either of the following two circumstances:

    (1) when trains running from or to epidemic-stricken areas, or when
epidemic cases or deaths from epidemic diseases occur on the train, and the
quarantine organ considers it necessary to make an inspection;

    (2) when the train is running close to border area where smuggling is
rampant, or when suspicious cases of smuggling arise and the Customs office
considers it necessary to make an inspection.

    7. At all stations on the country's borders, the public security organ
shall be responsible for calling and presiding over regular meetings on the
coordination in inspection work; and all organs concerned shall discuss
problems that crop up during the inspections, and exchange views on how to
coordinate their actions, to work in close cooperation under division of
competence, and to simplify operative procedures.

    8. Government inspection personnel shall wear uniforms and the badges and
armbands issued by their respective organs.

    9. The term inspection, as mentioned in these General Rules, refers to the
inspection provisions lists in the various items in Article 2 of these General
Rules. Other Provisions of inspection, such as the control of cargo shipment
and the inspection and examination of goods for taxation as executed by the
Customs office, shall be executed by various organs concerned in accordance
with the existing relevant provisions.

    10. All the inspection organs concerned under the Central Government
shall, in accordance with their respective competent scope of operations, send
immediately to the Ministry of Railways the regulations and decrees concerning
the prohibitions, restrictions and bans to be imposed on the railway
transportation of passengers and cargos; and the same procedure shall be
followed when amendments are made.

    11. These General Rules shall go into effect after their promulgation by
the Government Administration Council. If any former inspection procedures
adopted in various regions conflict with these General Rules, the former shall
be abolished.