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Serial No.
Article of Order.
Words of Order.
Substituted Words.
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1 (xvii) (b).
one hundred
pounds.
one thousand dollars,
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1 (xvii) (~).
| Board of Trade,
Governor.
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1 (xvii) (d). |
Board of Trade.
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Do.
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1 (xx)
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section four of the Trading with the Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1916.
Board of Trade
The expression
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Custodian
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means the Custodian of Enemy Pro- perty pointed under the Trading with the En- emy (Amend- ment) Act, 1914.
Governor.
section G of the Trading with the Enemy Amendment. Ordinance, 1916, as amended by section 2 of the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1919.
Governor.
The expression “Custodian" means the Custodian of Enemy Property ap- pointed under the Trad- ing with the Enemy Second Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and in the case of China companies within the meaning of the "China Companies Custodian Ordinance, 1919, means the Custodian of Euemy Property in China who is referred to in the latter Ordinance,
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this bill is to adapt the Treaty of Peace Order, 1919, to the.circumstances of this Colony. The Order applies to the whole of His Majesty's Domi- nious and Protectorates, except the self governing domi- nions and India, and Article 3 of the Order contemplates that the Legislatures of the Colonies and Protectorates to which the Order applies shall legislate for the purpose of adapting the Order to those Colonies and Protectorates. The Order will come into operation when the Treaty of Peace comes into force. The Order was published in the London Gazette of the 24th October, 1919, and in the Hongkong Gazette of the 9th January, 1920.
2. The modifications created by the bill are all matters of detail such as the substitution of dollar amounts for sterling, references to Hongkong Ordinances instead of to English Acts, and the substitution of the Governor for the Board of Trade as the authority for certain administrative functions.
7th January, 1920.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
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