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Copy of deaf. Hang Kang
in your
DRAFT ORDER IN COUNCIL.
At the Court ait
Onder referred uty 918/3. sze
Arı
The
day of
PRRB NT
1948.
1/1 Capps.
Short title and inter- pretation.
The King' Most ixcellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas circumstances have arisen in the Colony of
Hong Kong(hereinafter called "the Colony") which render it
cerram. expedient that provision should be made whereby functions
exercisable by the Governor of the Colony (hereinafter
called "the Governor") and other authorities under laws in
force in the Colony shouli, so long as the said
otherwise circumstances continue, be exercisable by one of His
Mujonty's Principal Bretaries of state or by the Minister
QPap Spansport, and that such laws should be modified in
other respects;
functions
And whereas the said p
include those conferred
upon the Governor by the mergency Powers (Defence) Act,
1939, and by certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping
Aots, 1894 to 1940, in their application to the Colony;
Now, therefore, His Majesty in exercise of tr
vera under
ts and of all other powers
enabling him in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby
ordered, as follows :-
1.(1)This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong(Temporary
Provisions) Order in Council, 1942.
(2)In this Order, (the word "enactment" mans (a)
(a)(i) any Ordinance,
(i) any provision, not made by virtue of an Act of
Parliament, contained in an Order of His Majesty in Council,
(iii)any
any Regulations, Hules, Order, Proclamation or other instrument made under an Ordinance or provision as aforesaid,
having the force of law in the Colony on the twenty-fifth
day of December, 1941;
CP. Squam
means
(b) "merchant shipping functions" functions relating to ships or vessels
including functions in connection with the payment of compensation in connection with the
acquisition thereof), their masters
uding apprentices navigation at sea and aids to safety in Wreck and salvage,
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