CHINA COMPANIES CUSTODIAN. No. 12 of 1919.
be deemed to have vested or shall vest (as the case may be), without the necessity of any further conveyance, assurance or other document, in the person appointed, whether before or after the commencement of this Ordinance (as the case may be), Custodian of Enemy Property in China, and such Custodian shall, as from the date of his appointment as such Custodian, be deemed to have had and shall have full powers of selling, managing and otherwise dealing with and transferring such shares, stock, debentures, debentures stock, annuities and other obligations of such China company (including all such rights as aforesaid).
No. 13 of 1919.
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An Ordinance for the more effectual protection of marine stores.
No. 13 of 1919.
[18th July, 1919.]
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Marine Stores Protection Ordinance, 1919.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "Dealer in marine stores" means any person who keeps a shop for dealing in, buying, or selling marine stores, whether solely or together with other articles.
(b) "Marine stores" includes coal, anchors, cables, sails, old junk, old iron, old metal, scrap metal, broken metal or partly manufactured metal goods, or defaced or old metal goods or any single one of such articles or any marine stores or marine store of any description, but does not include provisions of any kind.
(c) "Marine stores collector" means any person who makes use of any wharf or launch or any junk, lighter, cargo boat, or sampan, or open boat of any description, whether belonging to him or not, in connexion with buying any marine stores, either for his own use or benefit or for the use or benefit of another person.
3. No person shall carry on the trade or business of a dealer in marine stores, or shall be a marine stores collector, unless he is the holder of a licence for that purpose, and no person shall carry on the trade or business of collecting marine stores.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.