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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 2, 1934.
No. 74.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
The following Order of His Majesty in Council which appears in the London Gazette of the 17th of November, 1933, is published for general information.
2nd February, 1934.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 10TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1933.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. LORD PRESIDENT.
EARL OF ATHLONE.
SECRETARY SIR JOHIN SIMON.
SECRETARY SIR PHILIP CUNLIFFE-LISTER. SIR BOYD MERRIMAN.
WHEREAS by subsection 1 of section 7 of the Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act, 1933, 23 Geo. V. c. 13, it is provided that His Majesty may by Order in Council direct that Part I of the said Act shall apply to His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom and to judgments obtained in the courts of the said dominions as it applies to foreign countries and to judgments obtained in the courts of foreign countries and that, in the event of His Majesty so directing, the said Act shall have effect accordingly and Part II of the Administration of Justice Act, 1920, shall cease to have effect except in relation to those parts of the said dominions to which it extends at the date of the Order:
And whereas it is provided by subsection (3) of section 7 of the said Act that references in the said section to His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom shall be construed as including references to any territories which are under His Majesty's protection and to any territories in respect of which a mandate under the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty:
Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of His powers under the said Act, is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-
(1) Part I of the Foreign
Foreign Judgments (Reciprocal Enforcement) Act, 1933, 23 Geo. V, c. 13, shall apply to His Majesty's dominions outside the United Kingdom and to judgments obtained in the courts of the said dominions and to territories which are under His Majesty's protection or in respect of which a mandate has been accepted by His Majesty and to judgments obtained in the courts of the said territories.
(2) This Order may be cited as "The Reciprocal Enforcement of Judgments (General Application to His Majesty's dominions etc.) Order, 1933..
M. P. A. HANKEY.
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