THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 9, 1919.
By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION
LICENSING TRADE WITH THE TERRITORIES OF AUSTRIA-HUNGARY IN THE OCCUPATION
OF THE ARMIES OF THE ASSOCIATED GOVERNMENTS.
WE
GEORGE R.I.
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THEREAS by Our Proclamation, dated the 9th day of September, 1914, called the Trading with the Enemy Proclamation No. 2, certain prohibitions, therein specifically set forth as regards trading or having commercial or financial transactions with persons resident or carrying on business in the German Empire or Austria-Hungary were imposed upon persons resident, carrying on business, or being in Our Dominions
AND WHEREAS by Our Proclamations, dated the 8th day of October, 1914, the 7th day of January, 1915, and the 14th day of September, 1915, Our first-mentioned Pro- clamation has been amended as in such Our Proclamations appears:
AND WHEREAS by the 8th paragraph of Our first-mentioned Proclamation it was provided that nothing in that Proclamation should be taken to prohibit anything which should be expressly permitted by Our Licence:
AND WHEREAS by the terms of the Armistice agreed upon between the Kingdom of Italy and Austria-Hungary, certain territories of Austria-Hungary have been evacuated by the Austro-Hungarian Armies and are now in the occupation of the Armies of the Associated Governments, and it is expedient to allow trade and commercial and financial transactions with persons resident or carrying on business in the territories so occupied by the Armies of the Associated Governments:
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NOW, THEREFORE, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, give and grant full licence and authority unto, and do hereby permit, all persons resident, carry- ing on business, or being in Our Dominions, to trade and have commercial and financial transactions with any person resident, or carrying on business, in the territories occupied as aforesaid by the Armies of the Associated Governments, in as full and ample a manner as if the said territories did not form part of Austria-Hungary but formed part of the territories belonging to one of the Governments with which Our Government is associated :
Provided always that any Licence which may be necessary in respect of any trans- action under any prohibition of export or prohibition of import for the time being in force in the United Kingdom, or in respect of any remittance of money out of the United Kingdom prohibited by the Regulation numbered 41 D. of the Defence of the Realm Regulations, is first obtained:
Provided also that this Our Licence shall not permit any person to pay to or for the benefit of any person resident, or carrying on business, in the said territories, any sum of money which by the terms of the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Acts, 1914 and 1915, or either of them, is required to be paid to the Custodian appointed under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914, but such sums must be paid to the said Custodian :
Provided also that this Our Licence shall not permit any person to pay or deliver to or on behalf of any person resident or carrying on business in the said territories any sum of money or property of which by the terms of the Trading with the Enemy Amend- ment Acts, 1914 and 1915, or either of them, notice has been or ought to have been given, prior to the date of this Our Proclamation, to the said Custodian.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Tenth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and nineteen, and in the Ninth year of Our Reign.
GOD SAVE THE KING.