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No. 28 of 1917.
Exemption.
[Originally No. 31 of 1917.]
Short title.
Declaration as to the effect on certain contracts of certain restrictions due to the war.
c. 8.
FERRIES.
conclusion of any proceedings taken under this Ordinance and until the payment of any fine which may be imposed in such proceedings: Provided that the Captain Superintendent of Police may release any such vessel so seized upon security to his satisfaction being provided for the payment of any fine which may be imposed in such proceedings.
9. This Ordinance shall not apply to any ferry maintained by the Star Ferry Company Limited between the pier situate opposite to Ice House Street, Victoria, and the pier situate at Kowloon Point and known as to its western portion as the Star Ferry Pier and as to its eastern portion as the Railway Pier, nor shall it affect any rights conferred on the said Company by the terms of the lease to the said Company of the said pier situate opposite to Ice House Street aforesaid.
No. 29 of 1917, incorporated in No. 2 of 1862.
No. 30 of 1917, incorporated in No. 32 of 1915.
No. 31 of 1917.
An Ordinance to make provision with regard to the effect on certain contracts of certain requirements, regulations and restrictions rendered necessary by the present war.
[28th December, 1917.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Contracts (War Restrictions) Ordinance, 1917.
2. It is hereby declared that where the fulfilment by any person of any contract which was or is to be performed within the Colony has been or shall be interfered with by the necessity on the part of himself or any other person of complying with any requirement, regulation, or restriction of the Admiralty, the Army Council, the Minister of Munitions, 5 & 6 Geo. 5, or the Food Controller, under the Defence of the Realm 5 & 6 Geo. 5, Consolidation Act, 1914, or the Defence of the Realm (Amendment) No. 2 Act, 1915, or any regulation made thereunder, or with any regulation made under the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council made on the 26th day of October, 1896, as amended by the Order of His Majesty in Council made on the 21st day of March, 1916, that necessity is a good defence to any pending or future action or proceedings taken within the Colony against that person in respect of the non-fulfilment of the contract so far as it is due to that interference.
c. 37.
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