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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 13, 1917.
in custody or on bail notwithstanding that the consent of the Crown Advocate to the institution of the prosecution for the offence has not been obtained, but no further or other proceedings shall be taken until that consent has been obtained.
13.--(1.) Any Court established under the Principal Order, on being satisfied on information on oath laid on behalf of the Minister that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under these Regulations has been or is about to be committed by any person, may issue a warrant authorising a British subject appointed by the Minister or by any consular officer in his own district and named in the warrant to inspect all books or documents belonging to or under the control of that person, and to require any British subject able to give any information with respect to the business or trade of that person to give that information, and, if accompanied by an officer of the Court, to enter and search any premises to which the jurisdiction of the Court extends and which are used in connection with the business or trade, and to seize any such books or docu- ments as aforesaid.
(2.) If any person having the custody of any book or document inspection of which has been authorised under this Regulation refuses or wilfully neglects to procure it for inspection, or if any such person who is able to give any information which may be required to be given under this Regulation refuses or wilfully neglects when required to give that information, that person shall be guilty of a breach of these Regulations.
14. (1.) Any person who does any act prohibited or who fails to do any act re- quired to be done by these Regulations shall be guilty of a breach of these Regulations.
(2.). Any person guilty of a breach of these Regulations shall, upon conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 501. or to imprisonment with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding three months, or to both.
(3.) Where any company has entered into a transaction or has done any act which is an offence under these Regulations or has failed to do any act which is required to be done by these Regulations, every director, manager, secretary, or other officer of the company who is knowingly a party to the transaction, act, or failure shall be guilty of an offence under these Regulations and shall, upon conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding 501., or to both.
Licences, &c.
15. Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit payments by or on account of enemies to persons resident, carrying on business, or being in His Majesty's Dominions if such payment arise out of obligations entered into before the outbreak of war, or in the case of persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Prohibited List before the date of the publication of their names therein.
16. Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit anything which may at any time hereafter be expressly permitted by licence granted by His Majesty or by a licence given on behalf of His Majesty or by a Secretary of State or given on the like behalf by the Minister, whether such licence be specially granted to individuals or he announced as applying to classes of persons.
The repeal of the King's Regulations entitled "The Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Regulations, 1915," shall not affect any licence given thereunder which is in existence at the commencement of these Regulations.
Short Title.
17. These Regulations may be cited as "The Trading with the Enemy (Consolida- tion) Regulations, 1917.”
Peking, January 1, 1917.
Allowed :
GREY OF FALLODON,
His Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs.
B. ALSTON,
His Britannic Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires.
NOTE: The list referred to in Regulation 9 has not been received here.