C.S.O. 4526 26
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[No. 2:-26.2.26.—1.]
A BILL
Short title.
ments
INTITULED
An Ordinance to repeal certain enactments imposing disabilities on former enemy aliens.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Former Enemy Aliens (Disabilities Removal) Ordinance, 1926.
Repeal of 2. The enactments mentioned in the Schedule, which certain enact- impose disabilities on subjects, citizens and companies of former enemy countries in respect of the carrying on of imposing disabilities on banking business within the Colony, and in respect of former enemy service on board British ships registered in the Colony, are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of the Schedule.
aliens.
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SCHEDULE.
Year and number.
Short title.
Extent of repeal.
2 of 1919. Banking
Business The whole Ordi-
(Prohibited Control) Ordinance, 1919.
8 of 1922.
Morchant
(Aliens
ment)
1922.
nance.
Shipping Sections 2 and 4, Employ- Ordinance,
Objects and Reasons.
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the words or a former enemy alien in section 5, and the words and of former enemy aliens" in the long title.
1. In the treaty of commerce and navigation between United Kingdom and Germany which was ratified on the 8th September, 1925, His Majesty's Government under- took to recommend to Parliament the necessary legislation for the removal of certain disabilities affecting German companies which did not extend to the subjects or citizens or companies of the most favoured foreign country. This resulted in the passing of the Former Enemy Aliens (Dis- abilities Removal) Act, 1925, 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 43. This Colony proposes to give notice of desire to adhere to the above treaty, and it therefore becomes necessary to legislate here in the same way as in the United Kingdom. This bill, therefore, proposes to repeal two enactments which were directed against former enemy alicus, ¿c., restrictions on banking business, and the prohibition against the employment of former enemy aliens on British ships regis- tered in the Colony.
2. The English Act dealt also with a third matter, i.e., the restriction on dealings in nou-ferrous metals. We had similar legislation in this Colony, 'i.e., Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1919 and 4 of 1920, but those Ordinances were repealed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1921.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
8th February, 1926.
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