THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 2,
1940.
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(h) masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not
being vernacular schools;
(i) certificated officers of the British Mercantile Marine, and
(j) officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force and also such other members of the said Corps or of the said Force as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;
Provided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.
If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council whose decision thereupon shall be final: Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to vary such decision at any time.
The second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Urban Council, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed (NOTE:- No fresh applications for registration in the second part of the said register will be entertained after Wednesday, the 14th day of February, 1940.)
Every person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register, knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to impri- sonment for any term not exceeding three months.
If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Urban Council the decision of the Governor in Council thercon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes whatsoever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.
2nd February, 1940.
Light Dues.
L. R. ANDREWES,
Presiding Officer.
TREASURY.
No. 136.-I hereby give notice that the figure representing the average opening selling rate for the month of January, 1940, of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London is settled at 14.82.
31st January, 1940.
T. BLACK, Accountant-General.