This English document is coming from "LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
This English document is coming from "LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA GOVERNING FOREIGN-RELATED MATTERS" (1991.7)
which is compiled by the Brueau of Legislative Affairs of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China, and is published by the China
Legal System Publishing House.
In case of discrepancy, the original version in Chinese shall prevail.
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INTERIM GENERAL RULES CONCERNING INSPECTION OF ENTRY AND EXIT
TRAINS, TRAIN CREW, PASSENGERS AND LUGGAGE
(Promulgated by the Government Administration Council on May 24,
1951)
1. These General Rules are formulated to unify 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.
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