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Enclosure 4.
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No. 169.
Order made by the Governor in Council under Section 4 of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1910, (Ordinance No. 4 of 1916), on the 28th day of April, 1916.
Whereas by a Proclamation, bearing even late herewith, called "The Trading with the Enemy (Neutral Countries) Proclaination, Hongkong, 1916," and issued under the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, it is declared that all persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the Colony of Hongkong are prohibited from trading with any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the List in such Proclamation (which List is therein and herein called the Statutory List), and that the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances, 1914-1915, and of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, and all other enactments relating to trading with the enemy shall, subject to such exceptions and adaptations as are prescribed by Order in Council of even date therewith, meaning thereby this Order or as may be prescribed by any Order in Council hereafter to be issued, apply in respect of the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List as if for references in such enactments to trailing with the enemy there were substituted references to trading with the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List and for references to enemies there were substituted references to the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List:
And whereas it is expedient to make such exceptions and adaptations in the pro- visions of the said Ordinances and enactments as are herein prescribed:
Now, therefore, it is hereby ordered as follows :—
1. The said enactments shall apply in respect of the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List as if for references therein to trading with the enemy there were substituted references to trading with the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List, and for references to enemies there were sub- stituted references to those persons and bodies of persons, and for references to offences under the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances, 1914-1915, or any of those Ordinances, there were substituted references to offences under the Trading with the Enemy (Exten- sion of Powers) Ordinance, 1916, and subject to the following exceptions and adapta- tions that is to say :--
A. In the application of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914:---
For the reference in section 2 to the 4th day of August, 1914, shall be sub- stituted a reference to the date of this Order, or in respect of any person or body of persons added to the Statutory List to the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.
B. In the application of the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Ordinance,
1915:-
(1.) For the references in section 3 to the commencement of the present War, and to the 8th day of May, 1915, wherever such expressions respectively occur, shall be substituted references to the date of this Order, or in res- pect of any person or body of persons added to the Statutory List to the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.
(2.) For the reference in section 4 to the passing of the Ordinance shail be substituted a reference to the date of this Order, or in respect of any person or body of persons added to the Statutory List to the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List, and for the reference to hereafter in that section shall be substituted a reference to after the date of this Order, or in respect of any person or body of persons added to the Statutory List to after the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.