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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 30, 1920.
9. This Order shall come into effect on the first day of January, 1920.
And the Right Honourable Arthur James Balfour, O.M., one of His Majesty's Prin- cipal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein.
ALMERIC FITZROY,
NOTE.--The above Order in Council appeared in the North China Daily News of the 16th January, 1920, under the following heading:
The following Order in Council is published for general information by direction of His Majesty's Minister.
H. B. M. Consulate-General,
Shanghai, January 15th, 1920.
E. II. FRASER, H.B. M. Consul-General.
No. 61.-The following Order of His Majesty the King in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 9th December, 1919, is published for general information.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 9TH DAY OF DECEMBER, 1919.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.
WHEREAS on the 20th day of January, 1911, an International Convention for the
Safety of Life at Sea, and for purposes incidental thereto, was duly entered into by His Majesty and the other Signatory Powers more especially referred to and set out in the said Convention :
And whereas a Statute 4 & 5 Geo. V., c. 50, intituled an Act to make such amendments of the law relating to Merchant Shipping as are necessary or expedient to give effect to an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea" (being the Con- vention above referred to) was passed on the 10th day of August, 1914, the short title of which is The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914":
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And whereas by Section 29, Sub-section 5, of the said Act it was provided as follows:----
"This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1915: “Provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, from time to time post-
pone the coming into operation of this Act for such period, not exceeding on any occasion of postponement one year, as may be specified in the Order":
And whereas by divers Orders in Council the coming into operation of the said Act has been from time to time postponed, and now stands postponed, by virtue of an Order in Council of the 25th day of June, 1919, until the 1st day of January, 1920 :
And whereas His Majesty deems it expedient that the provisions of the said Act should be further postponed:
NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, in pursuance of the powers vested in Him by the above-recited provision, and of all other powers Him thereunto enabling, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914, shall be postponed from coming into operation until the 1st day of July, 1920.
ALMERIC FITZROY.