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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 723.-It is notified for general information that a book entitled, "The Colonial Empire and its Civil Service" by C. J. JEFFRIES, C.M.G., O.B.E., Assistant Secretary in the Colonial Office, has been published by the Cambridge University Press.
16th September, 1938.
No. 724.
N. L SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
The following Order of His Majesty in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of 5th August, 1938, is published for general information.
16th September, 1938.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 28TH DAY OF JULY, 1938.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
LORD PRESIDENT.
LORD ROMER.
SECRETARY SIR SAMUEL HOARE,
MR. SECRETARY COLVILLE.
SIR HUGH O'NEILL.
WHEREAS by Section 21 (1) (a) of the Foreign Marriage Act, 1892, His Majesty The King in Council is authorised to make regulations prohibiting or restricting the exercise by marriage officers of their powers under the Act in places where sufficient facilities appear to His Majesty to exist without the exercise of those powers for the solemnization of marriages to which a British subject is a party :
AND WHEREAS by Section 21 (2) of the said Act it is provided that regulations made in pursuance of the said Section may be made inter alia with reference to any particular class of cases:
AND WHEREAS it appears that without the exercise of their powers under the said Act by marriage officers in China sufficient facilities exist under the forms of marriage referred to in Sections 12 and 22 of the said Act for marriages in China of British subjects who are serving in China in His Majesty's Naval or Military Forces or in the Royal Air Force :
AND WHEREAS on account of urgency this Order should come into immediate operation:
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