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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 5, 1920.
(vii) The Administrator shall be assisted by such officers and servants as the Board of Trade, subject to the consent of the Treasury, may determine, and there shall be paid to the Administrator and to such officers and servants such salaries or other remuneration as the Treasury may determine. (viii) The Administrator shall retain out of the property, rights, interests or the proceeds thereof vested in or collected or received by him under this Order such sums as, subject to the consent of the Treasury, he may consider necessary to cover risks, expenses and commissions.
(ix) (a) Debts shall carry interest at the rate of five per centum per annum, but in cases where by law, custom or contract the creditor is entitled to the pay- ment of interest at some other rate that rate shall be the rate of interest ;
Provided that interest shall not be payable on sums of money due by way of dividend, interest or other periodical payments which themselves represent interest on capital.
(b) Interest shall commence to run from the date of the commencement of hostilities (or, if the debt became due at a later date during the war, from such later date), and shall, in the case of debts payable to the Administrator, continue to run until payment is made to him.
(x) The Administrator may sue and be sued by the name of the Administrator of
Bulgarian property.
(xi) Every document purporting to be an order or other instrument issued by the Administrator or to be signed by him or by any other person authorized by him shall be received in evidence and shall be deemed to be such order or instrument without further proof unless the contrary is shown and in any proceeding by the Administrator to recover a debt or fine, a report purporting to be signed by the Administrator or any other person authorized by him shall be evidence of the facts therein stated.
(xii) A certificate signed by the Administrator that an order or other instrument purporting to be made or issued by him is so made or issued shall be conclu- sive evidence of the facts so certified.
(xiii) The Documentary Evidence Act, 1868, as amended by any subsequent enact- ment, shall apply to the Administrator in like manner as if he were mentioned in the first column of the First Schedule to that Act, and as if the Adminis- trator or any person authorized by him to act on his behalf were mentioned in the second column of that Schedule, and as if the regulations referred to in that Act included any documents issued by or on behalf of the Adminis-
trator.
(xiv) All decisions of the Mixed Arbiird Tribunal constituted under Section V1. of Part IX. of the Treaty, if within the jurisdiction of that tribunal, shall be final and conclusive and binding on all courts.
(xv) The Administrator may undertake on behalf of a British national the presen- tation to and conduct before the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal of any claim, differ- ence or dispute referable to the Tribunal under the provisions of Sections IV., V. and VII of Part IX. of the Treaty, and may make regulations with the consent of the Treasury in respect of the fees to be charged in respect of such services.
(xvi) 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 disobedience to any such order shall be punishable as contempt of court. (xvii) The time at which the period of prescription or limitation of right of action referred to in Article 183 of the Treaty 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 184 shall be ten months from the coming into force of the Treaty.
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