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2.-(1.) The Governor may appoint such person as he Appoint- thinks fit to be a Deputy Official Receiver of debtors ment and estates under the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891, and remove such person from such office.
powers of
may Deputy
(2.) Every Deputy Official Receiver shall have all the powers conferred on the Official Receiver by the Bauk- ruptcy Ordinance, 1891, or by any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same.
(3.) Every Deputy Official Receiver shall act under the general authority and direction of the Official Receiver for the time being, or, if there be no Official Receiver for the time being, under the general authority and direction of the Governor, and shall also be an officer of the Court.
Official Receivers.
3. The Governor shall be deemed to have had at all Declaration
power at all
Official
times the power to appoint any person to be Deputy as to the Official Receiver or to act as Deputy Official Receiver, times of and to attach any person for duty to the office of the Governor Official Receiver, and all acts whatsoever of any person so to appoint appointed to be Deputy Official Receiver or to act as Deputy Deputy Official Receiver, or so attached for duty to the Receivers, office of the Official Receiver, done during the period of and as to such appointment or while so attached, shall be deemed validity of to be as valid in all respects as if this Ordinance had acts of been in force at the time of his being so appointed or persons
appointed attached as the case may be and as if such person had before com- been appointed a Deputy Official Receiver in pursuance of mencement section 2 of this Ordinance.
of Ordinance.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this bill is to give the Governor express power to appoint Deputy Official Receivers, to remove doubts as to his power to do so in the past, and to remove doubts as to the validity of the acts of persons appointed Deputy Official Receivers, or to act as Deputy Official Re- ceivers, or attached for duty to the office of the Official Receiver.
J. H. KEMP, Attorney General.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinances, 1862 and 1914.
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 Military Stores Short title. · (Exportation) Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinances, 1862 and 1914, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may be cited together as the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinances, 1862-1915.
2. In the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinances, 1862 Definition. and 1914:-
Export" means to carry out of the Colony or to cause to be carried out of the Colony, and includes the carriage out of the Colony of things which were carried into the Colony by water and which are, without transhipment into any other vessel, carried out of the Colony on the same vessel on which they were carried into the Colony,