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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 9, 1919.
No. 200. The following Proclamation by His Majesty the KING is published for general information :---
By the KING.
A PROCLAMATION
RELATING TO THE IMPORTATION OF CERTAIN ARTICLES INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM.
GEORGE R.1.
WHEREAS by Section forty-three of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876, it is
provided that the importation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, or any other goods may be prohibited by Proclamation:
And whereas by certain Proclamations entitled Prohibition of Import Proclamations the importation of certain goods has been prohibited accordingly :
And whereas it is expedient that the importation into the United Kingdom of certain other goods should be prohibited:
Now, therefore, We, by and with the advice of Our Privy Council, in pursuance of the said Act and of all other powers enabling Us in that behalf, do hereby proclaim, direct and ordain as follows:
As from and after the date hereof, subject as hereinafter provided, the importation into the United Kingdom of the following articles is hereby prohibited, viz.
All derivatives of coal tar generally known as intermediate products capable of being used or adapted for use as dye-stuffs, or of being modified or further manufactured into dye-stuffs.
All direct cotton colours, all union colours, all acid wool colours, all chrome and mordant colours, all alizarine colours, all basic colours, all sulphide colours, all vat colours (including synthetic indigo), all oil, spirit and wax colours, all lake colours, and any other synthetic colours, dyes, stains, colour acids, colour bases, colour lakes, leuco acids, leuco bases, whether in paste, powder, solution or any other form.
Provided always, and it is hereby declared, that this prohibition shall not apply to any such goods which are imported under licence given by or on behalf of the Board of Trade, and subject to the provisions and conditions of such licence.
This Proclamation may be cited as the Prohibition of Import (No. 28) Proclamation, 1919.
Given at Our Court at Buckingham Palace, this Twenty-fourth 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.
NOTE 1. See the London Gazette of the 25th February, 1919.
NOTE 2.-The following proclamations prohibiting the importation of certain articles into the United Kingdom are now in force :-
Subject.
Belgian Bank Notes.
Unset Diamonds.
Consolidating.
Date of Proclamation.
Date of Hongkong Gazeite.
5th May,
1915.
28th July.
1915.
30th March,
1917.
10th May,
1917.
(No. 16.)
8th June, 13th July,
1917.
1917.
28th June,
1917.
(No. 17.)
17th August,
1917.
22nd August,
1917.
(No. 18.)
9th November, 1917.
29th August,
1917.
(No. 19.)
9th November, 1917.
16th November, 1917.
(No. 20.)
25th January,
1918.
21st December, 1917.
(No. 21.)
8th March,
1918.
16th January,
1918.
(No. 22.)
28th March,
1918.
22nd March,
1918.
(No. 23.)
21st June,
1918.
13th April,
1918.
(No. 24.)
21st June,
1918.
4th June,
1918.
(No. 25.)
9th August,
1918.
25th June,
1918.
Cocaine and Opiun!.
27th September, 1918.
2nd August,
1918.
(No. 26.)
18th October, 1918.
27th September, 1918.
(No. 27.)
8th November,
1918.
(No. 28.)
14th January,
1919.
Foreign Coins.
13th December, 1918. 17th January, 28th March,
1919.
1919.
24th February,
1919.
(No. 28.)
9th May,
1919.