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3.-(1.) No action shall be maintained against a Actions not public servant :-
to lie against public ser-
(a) upon any promise express or implied to repay rants in
money paid or advanced to him or to another certain cases. person at his request;
(b) upon any promise express or implied to be answerable for the debt or default of another
person; or
(c) upon any bond, bill of exchange, promissory note or other instrument made, drawn, accepted, endorsed or given by him.
(2.) This section shall not apply to any public servant whose substantive pay, at the date when the liability sought to be enforced is contracted, exceeds two hundred dollars a month, exclusive of any allowances.
(3.) This section shall not apply to any liability con- tracted before the commencement of this Ordinance.
(4.) Nothing in this section contained shall affect the right of the holder of any security to realize the same by sale or foreclosure.
4. All proceedings and documents in or incidental to Proceedings an action in contravention of this Ordinance shall be in contraven- absolutely null and void for all purposes, whether the tion of this
Ordinance to Ordinance be raised as a defence or not.
be void.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this hill is to prevent borrowing on the part of certain subordinate public servants by making such loans irrecoverable. The operation of the bill is confined to public servants whose substantive pay does not exceed $200 a month.
A BILL
INTITULED
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
An Ordinance to amend further the Alien
Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance, 1914.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Alien Enemies Short title (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be and cou- read and construed as one with the Alien Enemies (Wind- struction. ing up) Ordinance, 1914, hereinafter called the principal Ordinances Ordinance, and with the Alien Enemies (Winding up) No. 28 and Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and with the Alien Euemics 30 of 1911 (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and the said 1915, Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances, 1914 to 1917.
and 11 of
2. In the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances, Interpreta-
1914 to 1917 :-
"Corporation under enemy control meaus :-
(a) a corporation of which any director or person occupying the position of a director, by what- ever name called, is an enemy or an enemy subject; or
(b) a corporation in which ten per cent or more of the issued capital or voting rights are held by, or directly or indirectly for or at the disposal of, enemies or enemy subjects; or
tion.