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504 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 30, 1914.
Amendment 2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by
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of Ordinance the substitution of a comma for a full stop after the words
"His Majesty" in the definition of "alien enemy the addition to the said definition of the following words :-
No. 28 of 1914, s. 2.
Amendment
"and includes every body corporate incorporated or
“established in the territory, or within the jurisdic-
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tion, or under the laws, of any sovereign or state "that is at war with His Majesty, and includes every firm which has, or which at any time since "the outbreak of war has had, a partner or an office in the territory of any sovereign or state that is at war with His Majesty."
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3. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is amended as
of Ordinance follows:- No. 28 of 1914, s. 4.
Amendment
(a.) by the repeal of the words "in writing under the hand of the Colonial Secretary' in sub- sections (1) and (2), and by the substitution therefor of the words " by any officer duly authorised in that behalf ";
(b.) by the addition of the following sub-section
after sub-section (2):-
"(3.) No person shall without the permis- sion of the Governor pay any money or part with any property whatsoever to or for the benefit of any alien enemy, or in any way deal with any property for the benefit of an alien enemy, whether such alien enemy be within or without the Colony."
(c.) By renumbering sub-sections (3) and (4) as (4)
and (5).
4. Sub-section (7) of section 5 of the Principal Ordi- of Ordinance nance is amended as follows:- No. 28 of 1914, s. 5 (7).
(a.) by the substitution of the word "trade" for
the word "business" in the third line thereof; (b.) by the insertion of the words " together with the goodwill of such trade and every part thereof," after the word enemy at the end of the third line thereof;
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(c.) by the insertion of the following words between the word "trade" and the word " and " in the fifth line thereof :-
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or any branch of such trade outside the Colony";
(d.) by the insertion of the words "for valuable consideration between the word "assigned" and the word "to" in the seventh line thereof; (e.) by the insertion of the following words between the word "liquidator" and the word "provided" in the tenth and eleventh lines thereof :
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"and in particular the appointment of a "liquidator of the trade of an alien enemy "under the provisions of this Ordinance "shall not alter vary or affect in any way any liability or obligatiou of any com- "pradore of any such trade as existing im- mediately before the appointment of the liquidator, nor shall such appointment operate to discharge any surety of any "such compradore in respect of any such "liability or to give him or any person who "has mortgaged pledged charged assigned "or given any property to secure any such compradore any rights such surety or person would not otherwise have had "whether in respect of any personal obliga- "tion or of any property mortgaged pledged charged assigned or given as security or "otherwise:".
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Amendment 5. Sub-section 8 of section 5 of the Principal Ordinance of Ordinance is amended in the first line thereof by the insertion of a No. 28 of
comma after the word "proceedings" and by the insertion 1914, s. 5 (8).
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