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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 9, 1920.
(xiv) All decisions of the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal constituted under Section VI of Part X of the Treaty, if within the jurisdiction of tha ttribunal, shall be final ..and conclusive and binding on all courts.
(xv) For the purpose of enforcing the attendance of witnesses before the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, wherever sitting, whether within or without His Majesty's Dominions, and compelling the production before the tribunal of documents, a Secretary of State shall have power to issue orders which shall have the like effect as if the proceedings before the tribunal were an action in a court and the order were a formal process issued by that court in the due exercise of its jurisdiction, and shall be enforceable by that court accordingly, and dis- obedience to any such order shall be punishable as contempt of court. (xvi) All property, rights and interests within His Majesty's Dominions or Protec- torates belonging to German nationals at the date when the Treaty comes into force (not being property, rights or interests acquired under any general licence issued by or on behalf of His Majesty), and the net proceeds of their sale, liquidation or other dealings therewith, are hereby charged---
(a) in the first place, with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by British nationals with regard to their property, rights and interests, including companies and associations in which they are interested in German territory, or debts owing to them by German nationals, and with payment of any compensation awarded by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, or by an Arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal in pursuance of paragraph (e) of Article 297, and with payment of claims growing out of acts committed by the German Government or by German authorities since the thirty-first day of July, and before the fourth day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen and
(b) secondly, with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by British nationals with regard to their property, rights and interests in the territories of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, in so far as those claims are not otherwise satisfied.
Provided that any particular property, rights or interests so charged may at any time, if His Majesty thinks fit, be released from the charge so created.
(xvii) With a view to making effective and enforcing such charge as aforesaid—
(a) no person shall, without the consent of the Custodian, transfer, part with or otherwise deal in any property, right or, interest subject to the charge, and if he does so he shall be liable on summary con- viction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprison- ment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such impri- sonment and fine;
(b) every person owning or having the control or 'management of any property right or interest subject to the charge (including where the property right or interest consists of shares stocks or other securities issued by a company municipal authority or other body or any right or interest therein such company authority or body) shall, unless particulars thereof have already been furnished to the Custodian in accordance with the Trading with the Enemy Acts 1914 to 1918, within one month from the date when this Order comes into opera- tion by notice in writing communicate the fact to the Custodian, and shall furnish the Custodian with such particulars in relation thereto as the Custodian may require, and if any person fails to do so he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds;
(c) where the property charged consists of inscribed or registered stock, shares or other securities, any company, municipal authority or other body by whom the securities were issued or are managed shall, on application being made by the Custodian, enter the Custodian in the books in which the securities are inscribed or registered as the proprietor of the securities subject to the charge, and the Custodian shall, subject to the consent of the Board of Trade, have power to sell or otherwise deal with the securities as proprietor of which he is so registered or inscribed;
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