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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.

Schedule, contd.

SHORT TITLE.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

55. The Trading with

the Enemy Ordin-

ance, 1914. (No. 25 of 1914), --contd.

the Deputy Commissioner of Police or any Assistant Superintendent of Police" in the fourth and fifth lines.

(7) Section 9-(i) the following sub-section is

substituted for sub-section (5)--

to

"(5) Where a person has been au- Penalty for

thorized under this section or section 8 to mutilation inspect any books and documents and any ments, etc.

of docu- such book or document is found by him 6 & 7 Geo. 5.

have been destroyed, mutilated or c. 52. s. 2. falsified, any person having or having had control of such book or document shall be guilty of an offence and liable to the punishment provided in sub-section (4) unless he proves that the destruction, inutilation or falsification was not intended for the purpose of concealing any transac tion which would constitute an offence of trading with the enemy, or that the destruction, mutilation or falsification was committed without his knowledge or con- nivance.'

(ii) sub-section (6) is repealed, except the last paragraph beginning “No action shall be brought

(8) Section 10-the following section is sub-

stituted-

"10. Where a person has given any Power information to a person authorized under to use this section or section 8 to inspect any information books and documents or to supervise a

in evidence business, the information so given may be informant.

against used in evidence against him in any pro- 5 & 6 Geo. 5, ceedings relating to an offence of trading e. 12, s. 13. with the enemy, notwithstanding that he gave the information only on being re- quired so to do by the person so appointed or authorized in pursuance of his powers under that section.

(9) Section 11-(i) the word "person" is sub-

stituted for the words "firm or company in the second line;

(ii) the words "his trade or business" are substituted-

(a) for the trade or business thereof`` in the fourth and fifth lines;

(b) for "thereof" in the sixth line;

(iii) the words "its effective continu ance are substituted for "the effective continuance of its trade or business" in the eighth line;

(iv) the words "the war" are substituted for "the present war" in the thirteenth line;

(v) the words "the trade or business" are substituted for the firm or company' in the fifteenth Bue;

(vi) the words "person aforesaid" are substituted for "firm or company" in the twenty-fourth and twenty-fifth and the thirtieth lines.

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