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No. 13.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 28, 1916.
PROCLAMATIONS.
PROHIBITING TRADING WITH CERTAIN PERSONS AND BODIES OF PERSONS OF ENEMY
NATIONALITY OR ENEMY ASSOCIATIONS.
(L.S.]
FRANCIS HENRY MAY,
Governor.
By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the
same :
Whereas by the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, it is enacted that the Governor in Council may by Proclamation prohibit all persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the Colony of Hongkong from trading with any persons or bodies of persons even though not resident or carrying on business in enemy territory or in territory in the occupation of the enemy (other than persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unin- corporated, residing or carrying on business solely within His Majesty's Dominions) wherever by reason of the enemy nationality or enemy association of such persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, it appears to him expedient so to do.
And whereas it appears to me expedient to prohibit all persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the Colony of Hongkong from trading with any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the list hereunder written, by reason of the eneiny nationality or enemy association of such last-mentioned persons or bodies of persons:
Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same have thought fit by and with the advice of the Executive Council of this Colony and in virtue and exercise of the aforesaid powers to issue this Proclamation declaring and it is hereby declared as follows:-
1. All persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carry- ing on business, or being in the Colony of Hongkong are hereby prohibited from trading with any of the persons or bodies of persons. mentioned in the list hereunder written, which list, with such variations therein or additions thereto as may be made by any Order made under this Ordinance, shall be called, and is hereinafter referred to as, the
'Statutory List".
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2. For the purposes of this Proclamation a person shall be deemed to have traded with a person or body of persons mentioned in the Statutory List if he enters into any transaction or does any act with, to, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any such person or body of persons which if entered into or done with, to, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, an enemy would be trading with the enemy, and accordingly His Majesty's Proclama- tion relating to Trading with the Enemy, of the ninth day of September, nineteen hun- dred and fourteen, as amended by any subsequent Proclamation of His Majesty, shall apply with respect to the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List as if for references in such Proclamations to enemies there were substituted references to the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List, and for references to the dates of the said Proclamations, and the outbreak of war, there were substituted references to the date of this Proclamation or in respect of any person or body of persons. hereafter added to the Statutory List the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.
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