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(3.) From and after the said date in so far as there may be variances between the regulations as printed in the said edition and the regulations as in force immediately before such date, the regulations as previously in force shall be deemed to have been amended.
Provided that nothing in this section shall affect the previous operation of any regulation so deemed to be repealed or to have been amended, or anything duly done or suffered under any such regulation, or any right privilege obligation or liability acquired accrued or incurred under any such regulation, or any penalty forfeiture or punish- ment incurred in respect of any offence committed against any such regulation, or any investigation legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right privilege obligation liability penalty forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid :
Provided also that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any regulation which may have been made since the 31st December, 1914, or which may be made hereafter.
6. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance any regulation contained in the said edition may be proved in any court or proceeding in the Colony by the production of a copy of the said edition duly authenticated as provided in sub-section (3) of section 2 of this Ordinance.
Objects and Reasons,
The object of this Bill is to authorise the preparation of an edition of the regulations, rules and by-laws in force in the Colony on the 31st December, 1914, and to provide that such edition shall be the sole authoritative collection of such regulations, rules and by-laws.
J. H. KEMP, Attorney General.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to provide for certificates of origin in respect of goods wares and mer- chandise sought to be imported from certain places and to provide for the furnishing of import manifests.
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 Certificates of Short title. Origin Ordinance, 1915.
2. In this Ordinance :--
(1.) "Person", except so far as relates to the impo- sition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm.
(2.) "Ship" has the same meaning as in the Mer-
chant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.
Definition.
3. No person except under licence from the Governor No person to shall import or attempt to import into the Colony any import goods from certain goods wares or merchandise from any place specified in the
places with- First Schedule hereto without a permit from the Superin- out a permit. tendent of Imports and Exports: Provided that the owners agents charterers or master of any ship arriving in the waters of the Colony and having on board any goods wares or merchandise to which this Ordinance applies, if they have no interrest in the said goods wares or mer- chandise except as carriers thereof, shall not be deemed to have imported or attempted to import the said goods wares or merchandise unless they or he shall have discharged the
same.
4. Such permit shall be in the form contained in the Form of per- Second Schedule hereto.
mit.
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