THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 9, 1920.
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(d) the Board of Trade may by order vest in the Custodian any pro- perty, rights and interests subject to the charge, or the right to transfer the same, and for that purpose section four of the Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1916, shall apply as if such property, rights and interests were property belonging to an enemy or enemy subject ;
(e) if any person called upon to pay any money or to transfer or other- wise to deal with any property rights or interests has reason to suspect that the same are subject to such charge as aforesaid he shall before paying transferring or dealing with the same report the matter to the Custodian and shall comply with any directions that the Custodian may give with respect thereto.
(xviii) The time at which the period of prescription or limitation of right of action. referred to in Article 300 shall begin again to run shall be at the expiration of six months after the coming into force of the Treaty, and the period to be allowed within which presentation of negotiable instruments for acceptance or payment and notice of non-acceptance or non-payment or protest may be made under Article 300 shall be six months from the coming into force of the Treaty.
(xix) Rules made during the war by any recognised Exchange or Commercial Association providing for the closure of contracts entered into before the war by an enemy and any action taken thereunder are hereby confirmed subject to the provisoes contained in paragraph 4 () of the Annex to Section V of Part X of the Treaty.
(xx) There shall be imposed on rights of industrial, literary or artistic property (with the exception of trade marks) acquired before or during the war, or which may be acquired hereafter, by German nationals, such limitations, conditions or restrictions as the Board of Trade may prescribe, for the purpose, in the manner, in the circumstances, and subject to the limitations, contained in Article 306 of the Treaty, and any transfer in whole or in part or other dealing with any rights so acquired as aforesaid effected since the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall if and so far as it is inconsistent with any limitations conditions or restrictions so imposed be void and of no effect.
(xxi) So far as may be necessary for the purpose of Article 307 the Patents, De- signs, and Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) Act, 1914 (except paragraph (b) of Section one of the Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) (Amendment) Act, 1914), shall in relation to German nationals continue in force after the Treaty comes into force as if references therein to subjects of a State of (sic, se. "at") war with His Majesty included references to German nationals.
(xxii) The duly qualified tribunal for the purposes of Article 310 of the Treaty
shall be the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.
2. For the purposes of this Order---
The expression "enemy debt" has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph 2 of the Annex to Section III of Part X of the Treaty, and includes any sum which under the Treaty is to be treated or dealt with in like manner as an enemy debt:
The expression "nationals" in relation to any State includes the subjects or citizens of that State and any company or corporation incorporated therein according to the law of that State and in the case of a Protectorate the natives thereof:
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The expression Custodian means the Custodian of enemy property appointed under the Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1914.
The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies for the interpretation of this Order in like manner as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if this Order were an Act of Parliament.
3. This Order shall apply to the whole of His Majesty's Dominions and Protectorates, except the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia (which for this purpose shall be deemed to include Papua and Norfolk Island), the Union of South Africa, the Dominion of New Zealand, Newfoundland and India, but in its application to the parts of His Majesty's Dominions outside the United Kingdom and to British Protectorates shall be subject to such modifications as may be made by the legislatures of those parts or those Protectorates for adapting to the circumstances thereof the provisions of this Order.