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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.

and any such order may contain such incidental and supplementary provisions as appear to the Governor to be necessary or expedient for the purposes of the order.

(2) Where any requirement or direction with respect to any money or property is addressed to any person by the Custodian and accompanied by a certificate of the Custodian that the money or property is money or property to which an order under this section applies, the certificate shall be evidence of the facts stated therein, and if that person complies with the require- ment or direction, he shall not be liable to any action or other legal proceeding by reason only of such compliance.

(3) Where in pursuance of an order made under this section or section 18-

(a) any money is paid to the Custodian,

(b) any property, or the right to transfer any property, is vested in the Custodian,

or

(c) a direction is given to any person by the Custodian in relation to any property which appears to the Custodian to be property to which the order applies,

neither the payment, vesting or direction nor any proceedings in consequence thereof shall be invalidated or affected by reason only that at a material time-

(i) some person who was or might have been interested in the money or property, and who was an enemy or an enemy subject, had died or had ceased to be an enemy or an enemy subject, or

(ii) some person who was so interested, and who was believed by the Custodian to be an enemy or an enemy subject, was not an enemy or an enemy subject.

(4) Any order under this section shall have effect notwithstanding anything in any other Ordinance unless in that Ordin- ance it is expressly provided that such order shall be subject to the provisions of that Ordinance.

(5) If any person pays any debt, or deals with any property, to which this Ordinance, or any order under this section, applies, otherwise than in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance, or such order, as the case may be, he shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and such fine: and the payment or dealing shall be void.

(6) If any person, without reasonable cause, fails to produce or furnish, in accordance with the requirements of an order under this section, any document or information which he is required under the order to produce or furnish, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not

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