THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 10, 1940.
No. 528
Hong Kong.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
In exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, the Governor hereby makes the following regulations—-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Compensation Title. (Defence) Regulations, 1940.
2.-(1) In these regulations-
(a) “agricultural land means any land used as arable, meadow or pasture land, land used for a plantation or a wood or land used for the purpose of poultry farming, market gardens, nursery grounds or orchards:
(b) “aircraft" means any flying machine, glider or air- ship or any balloon (whether fixed or free):
(c) "the emergency means the emergeney that was the occasion of the making of these regulations;
(d) "emergency powers means any power conferred by-
(i) regulations made under the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, or any other Order of His Majesty in Council relating to emergency powers for the time being in force in this Colony, as part of the law of this Colony,
(ii) section two of the Emergency Regulations Ordin- ance, 1922, or
(iii) section four of the Telecommunication Ordinance, 1936,
or any power exercisable by virtue of the prerogative of the Crown;
(e) "exercise" includes purported exercise;
(1) "fair wear and tear", in relation to any property possession of which is taken on behalf of the Governor or which is requisitioned on behalf of the Governor, means such fair wear and tear as might have been expected to occur but for the fact that possession of the property was so taken or that the property was so requisitioned, as the case may be;
(g) "goods means chattels other than vessels, vehicles and aircraft;
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Interpreta- tion.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1922.
Ordinance No. 18 of 1936.
11 & 2 Geo.
s. 21.
(b) “hire-purchase agreement means an agreement for the bailment of goods under which the hailee may buy the 6, c. 53, goods or under which the property in the goods will or may pass to the bailee, and where by virtue of two or more agree- ments, none of which by itself constitutes a hire-purchase agreement, there is a bailment of goods and either the bailee may buy the goods, or the property therein will or may pass to the bailee, the agreements shall be treated for the purposes of these regulations as a single agreement made at the time when the last of the agreements was made;
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