THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 3, 1936.
No. 16.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
The following Orders of His Majesty in Council are published for general information.
The Order of the 9th November is the Order in Council referred to in Government Notification No. 902 published in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 22nd November, 1935. It amends the principal Order of the 25th October, 1935, which was published by Government Notification No. 887 in the Hong Kong Government Gazette of the 15th November, 1935, but it is itself amended by the Order of the 19th November, 1935.
3rd January, 1936.
W. T. SOPTHORN,
Colonial Secretary.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 9TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1935.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by the Treaty of Peace Act, 1919, it is provided that His Majesty may make such Orders in Council and do such things as appear to him to be necessary for carrying out the Treaty of Peace signed at Versailles on the twenty-eighth day of June, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for giving effect to any of the provisions of the said Treaty:
And whereas it is also provided by the said Act that any Order in Council made thereunder may provide for the imposition by summary process or otherwise of penalties in respect of breaches of the provisions thereof:
And whereas His Majesty in Council was pleased to make the Treaty of Peace (Covenant of the League of Nations) Order, 1935 (hereinafter referred to as "the principal Order") for the purpose of carrying out the said Treaty and giving effect to the Covenant of the League of Nations contained in Part I thereof:
And whereas for the purpose aforesaid it is expedient to vary the principal Order and to make such further provision as is hereinafter contained:
And whereas by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance or other lawful means His Majesty has power and jurisdiction in British protectorates and territories in respect of which a mandate on behalf of the League of Nations has been accepted by His Majesty, and is pleased by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in him by the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890, or otherwise to extend the provisions of Article one of this Order to all such protectorates and to territories in respect of which such a mandate as aforesaid is being exercised by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom :
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