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Objects and Reasons.
The main object of this Bill is to enable a defendant to register a judgment without having to obtain the plaintiff's signature to the memorial. Inconvenience is sometimes caused through the unwillingness of an unsuccessful plain- tiff to assist a successful defendant in this respect.
Clauses 3 and 4 provide for the case of a judgment by which no "sum " is "recovered ".
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
Short title and
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, and to effect certain purposes connected therewith.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hougkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows ---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trading with the Enemy Second Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and shall construction. be read and construed as one with the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance, and with the Trading with the Enemy Amend- meut Ordinance, 1915.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 18 of 1915.
Constitution of office of
2. The Certificates of Origin Amendment Ordinance, 1915 is repealed.
3.-(1) The Governor shall appoint a person to act as Custodian of enemy property, hereinafter referred to as Custodian of the Custodian", for the purpose of receiving, holding, preserving, and dealing with such property as may be paid to or vested in him in pursuance of this Ordinance.
enemy pro- perty:
5 Geo. 5, c. 12, s. 1 (1). (3), (4).
Payment of dividends,
to enemy:
5 Geo. 5, c. 30, s. 2.
(2.) The Custodian shall have such powers and duties with respect to the property aforesaid as may be prescribed by regulations made by the Governor.
(3.) The Custodian may place on deposit with any bank, or invest in any securities, approved by the Governor, any moneys paid to him under this Ordinance or received by him from property vested in him under this Ordinance, and any interest or dividends received on account of such deposits or investments shall be dealt with in such manner as the Governor may direct :
4.-(1) Any sum which, had a state of war not existed, would have been payable and paid to or for the benefit of &c., payable an enemy, by way of dividends, interest or share of profits, shall be paid by the person, firm or company by whom it would have been payable to the Custodian to hold subject to the provisions of this Ordinance and any Order made or direction given thereunder, and the payment shall be accompanied by such particulars as the Governor may prescribe, or as the Custodian, if so authorised by the Governor, may require.
Any payment required to be made under this subsection to the Custodian shall be made-
(4.) within fourteen days after the passing of this Ordinance, if the sum, had a state of war not existed, would have been paid before the pass- ing of this Ordinance; and
(b.) in any other case within fourteen days after it
would have been paid.