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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 4, 1939.
Incidental provisions
as to sanc- tions and approvals.
Power to impose charges.
(2) Proceedings against any person for the purposes of this Act may be taken before the court having jurisdiction in the place where that person is for the time being.
(3) Any summary proceedings which may be taken against a person for an offence under this Act committed by him outside the countries and territories to which this Act extends may, notwithstanding any limitation imposed by law on the time for taking proceedings, be commenced in any competent court within six months from the date on which he first sets foot within the jurisdiction of that court after the commission of the offence.
(4) In any proceedings a document purporting to state that a sanction or approval has been given under this Act, and to be signed on behalf of the Secretary of State or the Board of Trade, as the case may be, or by a person who is empowered by this Act to do anything which may be done thereunder by the Board, shall be evidence of the facts stated in the document.
7. For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that any sanction or approval under this Act may be given either generally or in relation to a particular case; and any such sanction or approval may be given on such terms, and subject to such conditions, as may be determined by the Secretary of State or the Board of Trade.
8. (1) The Treasury may by order authorize the making of such charges as may be specified in the order in respect of the giving of any sanction under section one or section three of this Act; and any such order may be varied or revoked by a subsequent order of the Treasury.
(2) Any such order as aforesaid shall be laid before the Commons House of Parliament as soon as may be after it is made, but, notwithstanding anything in sub-section (4) of 56 & 57 Vict. section one of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, shall be deemed
not to be a statutory rule to which that section applies.
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(3) Any such order as aforesaid imposing or increasing a charge shall cease to have effect on the expiration of the period of twenty-eight days beginning with the day on which the order is made, unless at some time before the expiration of that period it has been approved by a resolution of the Commons House of Parliament, without prejudice, however, to the validity of anything previously done under the order or to the making of a new order.
In reckoning any period of twenty-eight days for the purposes of this sub-section, no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued, or during which the Commons House is adjourned for more than four days.
(4) Without prejudice to the preceding provisions of this section, there may be charged in respect of the giving of any sanction under this Act, or in respect of the approving under this Act of any transfer of the registry of a ship, such fee, not exceeding five pounds, as the Secretary of State or the Board of Trade may with the approval of the Treasury determine.