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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 26, 1915.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 85.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
2nd January, 1915.
SIR,-I have the honour to transmit to you, for your information, the accompanying copy of the Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty Act, 1914.
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2. This Act has been passed with a view to enabling the Anglo-Portuguese Com- mercial Treaty (which forms the schedule thereto) to come into force; and I would invite your special attention to Articles 21 and 23 of the Treaty.
I have, &c.,
L. HARCOURT.
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
[5 GEO. 5.] Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty Act, 1914.
A.D. 1914.
Meaning of
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"madeira
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Chapter 1.
[CH. 1.]
An Act to make such provisions as are necessary to enable the Anglo-Portu-
guese Commercial Treaty to come into force.
[27th November 1914.]
WHEREAS, have adsluded the treaty of commerce and navigation set out
HEREAS His Majesty the King and the President of the Portuguese
in the Schedule to this Act, and by the final protocol appended thereto, it is pro- vided that the treaty shall not come into force until the sanction of Parliament to article six thereof has been obtained :
Be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
1. The description "port" or "madeira" applied to any wine or other port" and liquor, other than wine the produce of Portugal and the island of Madeira respectively, shall be deemed to be a false trade description within the meaning of the Merchandise Marks Act, 1887, and that Act shall have effect accordingly:
as applied to wine.
50 & 51 Vict. c. 28.
Short title.
Provided that it shall be a good defence to any proceedings under that Act in respect of such a description as aforesaid if it is proved-
(a) that the wine or other liquor to which the description is applied is intended solely for exportation from the United Kingdom; or
(b) in the case of any wine or other liquor sold or exposed for or kept in possession for sale within twelve months after the passing of this Act, that the description applied thereto was lawfully so applied before the passing of this Act.
2. This Act may be cited as the Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty Act, 1914.
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