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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 7, 1907.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 376.
ORDER IN COUNCIL.
RELATING TO
THE CHINA AND COREA (AMENDMENT) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1907.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 11TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1907.
PRESENT:
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His Majesty the KING has jurisdiction within the dominions of the Emperor of China and the Emperor of Corca.
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Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by The Foreign Jurisdiction Aer, 1890," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:
1. This Order may be cited as "The China and Corea (Amendment) Order in Council, 1907," and shall be read as one with The China and Corca Order in Council, 1904,” here- inafter referred to as the “ Principal Order.”
2.—(1.) Where one or more commissioned Consular officers are stationed in a Consular district assigned to another commissioned Consular officer, the Minister may, if he think fit, appoint such commissioned Consular officer or officers to whom no district is assigned to be an additional Judge or additional Judges of the Provincial Court of the district.
(2.) Where an officer is so appointed he shall hear and determine such matters, civil and criminal, being within the jurisdiction of a Provincial Court, as the Consular officer to whom the district is assigned, with the sanction of the Judge of the supreme Court, directs.
(3.) Where an officer is appointed under this Article he may sit at the same time and place as the Consular officer to whom the district is assigned, or in a different place, and each sitting shall be deemed a sitting of the Provincial Court of the district.
3. The following Article shall be substituted for Article 69 of the Principal Order :
Any act which, if done in the United Kingdom, or in a British Possession, would be an offence against any of the following Statutes of the Imperial Parliament or Orders in Council, that is to say :—
(a.) "The Merchandize Marks Act, 1887”;
(b.) The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Acts, 1883 to 1902”;
The Trade Marks Act, 1905";
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(4.) Any Statute amending or substituted for any of the above mentioned Statutes ;
(e.) Any Act, Statute, or Order in Council for the time being relat- ing to copyright, or to inventions, designs, or trade-marks, of which a copy is kept exhibited in the public offices of the Consulates at Shanghae and Seoul, and is there open for inspection by any person at all reasonable times;
shall, if done by a British subject in China or Corea, be punishable as a grave offence against the Principal Order, whether such act is done in relation to any property or right of a British subject, or of a foreigner or native, or otherwise howsoever.
Provided:
(1.) That no person shall be punished under this Order for an act which would be an offence against any Act, Statute, or Order in Council, the exhibition of which is required by paragraph (e) above, unless such exhibition had commenced not less than one month before the act took place, or unless the person offending is proved to have had express notice of such Act, Statute or Order in Council.