THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 13, 1917.
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Account," at such incorporated bank, or banks, as the Minister shall by public notice appoint. Any sum so paid into "The Enemy Dividends Account" shall not be dealt with save on an order of the Supreme Court.
Any payment required to be made under this Regulation shall be made :---
(a.) Within fourteen days after the commencement of these Regulations if the sum, had a state of war not existed, would have been paid before such commencement ;
(b.) In any other case within fourteen days after it would have been paid. (2.) The expression "dividends, interest, or share of profits" for the purposes of this Regulation means any dividends, bonus, or interest in respect of any shares, stock, debentures, debenture stock, or other obligations of any company, any interest in respect of any loan to a person carrying on business for the purposes of that business, and any profits or shares of profits of such a business, and, where a person is carrying on any business on behalf of an enemy, any sum which, had a state of war not existed, would have been transmissible by a person to an enemy by way of profits from that business shall be deemed to be a sum which would have been payable and paid to an enemy.
Prohibited List.
9. There shall be and there is hereby constituted a list of persons or bodies of persons resident or carrying on business in non-enemy countries with whom, by reason of their enemy nationality or enemy association, it is expedient that trading should be prohibited. Such list is contained in the schedule to these Regulations, and shall be called "the Prohibited List."
The Minister may at any time vary or add to the Prohibited List, and such variations and additions shall have effect in each consular district as though they were contained in the list in the schedule hereto from the date on which they are published by being exhibited conspicuously in the public offices of the consulate of that district.
A copy of the Prohibited List and of any variation thereof or addition thereto shall be kept exhibited in each consular office.
10. Any person who, by himself or in conjunction with others, whether British subjects or not, enters into any transaction mentioned in Regulations 3 and 4 of these Regulations with any person or body of persons in the Prohibited List shall be deemed to have traded with the enemy and shall be guilty of a breach of these Regulations.
Provided that nothing in this Regulation shall be taken to prohibit-
(a.) Any person who is engaged in any non-enemy country in the business of insurance from carrying on in that country that business (other than the business of marine insurance or of insurance against fire or any other risk of goods or merchandise during transit from shipper's or manufac- turer's warehouse until deposited in warehouse on the termination of the transit, if any part of the transit is by sea) with or through the agency of any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Prohibited List. (b.) Any person who is engaged in working any railway or other service of public utility in any non-enemy country under any charter, grant, or concession made by the Government of, or by any provincial or muni- cipal authority in, any such country from trading with any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Prohibited List, so far only as is necessary to enable the person or body of persons engaged in working such railway or other service of public utility to comply with or fulfil the obligations or conditions of the charter, grant, or concession under which the working of the railway or other service of public utility is carried on.
Legal.
11. Where an Act constitutes an offence both under these Regulations and under the law applied by the Principal Order, the offender shall be liable to be prosecuted and punished under either these Regulations or the law aforesaid, but shall not be liable to be punished twice for the same offence.
12. A prosecution for an offence under these Regulations shall not be instituted except by or with the consent of the Crown Advocate.
Provided that the person charged with such an offence may be arrested and a warrant for his arrest may be issued and executed, and such person may be remanded
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