Iturporting
in law of Colony of
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(1) Any order, regulation or other act made under Proclamation No. 4--Delegation of Powers (Amendment)-and Proclamation No. 16-Military Administration (Delega- ptber sat under tion)-and contained in Schedule III bereto shall as from the date, if any, from which
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it is expressed to take effect or, if there is no such date, then as from the date of its promulgation have effect as if it had lawfully been made under the provisions of sn Ordinance enacted by the legislature of the Colony and, as from the enactment of this Ordinance shall have effect subject to the adaptations and modifications contained in the Schedule hereto.
(2) Any matter or thing done under any such order, regulation or act com- prised in the preceding sub-section shall have effect accordingly.
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Variation of
Schedule.
The Ordinances referred to in the first column of Schedule IV hereto are hereby amended in the manner appearing in the second column of the said Schedule.
7. (1) Notwithstanding the repeal of the Military Courts Proclamation effected by section 2 of this Ordinance the provisions of Articles 20, 22 and 23 and paragraphı (1) of Article 24 shall subject to the adaptations and modifications contained in sub- section (2) of this section continue in force to the extent that the same are required to give effect to the provisions of the Indemnity and Validating Ordinance, 1946, con- taining the powers conferred on an appellate authority by sub-section (2) of section 4 of that Ordinance.
(2) (a) The appellate authority shall not exercise the power to order a new
trial, and
(b) the words "appellate authority within the meaning of the Indemnity and Validating Ordinance, 1946" shall be substituted for the words "the Legal Adviser" wherever such words appear in the said Articles.
(3) Where any matter or thing has been done in exercise of the powers con- ferred on any of the officers specified in the right hand coluron of Order No. 1 made under Article 1 of Proclamation No. 4-Delegation of Powers (Amendment)-or under any amendment of such order with reference to any enactment (including any enact- ment of the British Military Administration) which is not repealed by this Ordinance such matter or thing shall continue to have effect in like manner as if it had been validly done by the corresponding authority specified opposite the name of any such officer in the left hand column of such order.
(4) Save as hereinafter provided notwithstanding the repeal by Section 2 hereof of Order No. 5 made under Article 1 of Proclamation No. 4Delegation of Powers (Amendment)--any petition for a Grant of Probate or Letters of Administration which was pending before the Standing Military Court under Order No. 5 aforesaid shall be deemed to be pending before the Supreme Court in like manner and with the like effect as if such petition and any step in the proceedings taken thereafter had law- fully been lodged" and taken under the Probates Ordinance, 1897. Provided that this sub-section shall not apply to any petition or any subsequent step which was not lodged or taken in accordance with such Ordinance as amended by Order No. 5 aforesaid.
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The Governor-in-Council may by Order from time to time add to. alter or amend the provisions of the Schedules bereto or any of them.
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Proclamations,
Modification.
Article.
No. 9-Ganette
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No. The Custodian Pro- clamation 1945 as attended
Throughout
by the Chatodian Awend- ment Proclamation.
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SCHEDULE I.
No. 11-Enemy Property, as Amended by The Enemy Pro- porty (Amendment} Pro- clamation.
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The words or after the cessation of the British Military Administration, the Governor shall be added after
**Chief
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Civil Affairs Officer ",
The words "
or after the cessation of the British Military Administration, the Governor shall be added after "**Chief Civil Affairs Officer ".
The following Article is substituted therefor "Any person contravening the provisions of this Proclamation shall be Liable on copriction upou indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years and to a fine uut exceeding five thousand dollars or upon summary convie tion to imprisonment for a term not exceed- ing twelve mouth on to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars **
The words "catablished by or under the authority of the British Military Administration shall be deleted.
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Whorerer the words Chief Civil Affairs Officer ** perur shall be substituted the worda “ Governor in Council ".
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In paragraph (3) the words Hong Kong (British Military Administration) shall be deleted.
The words "in the public interest ** shall be substituted for the words "in the interests of the British Military Adminis- tration **
There shall be substituted for the words ** shall be guilty of an offence... Auch imprisonment and fine" the words “shall be able
(a) on Conviction on indictment to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years and to a tine not exceeding Teni thousand dollars;
(h) on summary conviction to any term not exceeding one rear or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars
Shall be deleted.
Proclamations.
Proclamations Incorporated in Law of Colony.
Modification.
Article.
No. 6-The Moratorium Pro- clamation as amended by the
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Moratorium Amendment Pro-
clamation.
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The words or after the cessation of
the British Military Administration, the Financial Secretary or such other person as may be appointed by the Governor
shall be added after ** Military Administration “
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The word Finance shall be inserted between the words "restrictions as the " and Controller **in porngraph (2).
The coma after Chief Civil Affairs Officer" shall be doloted and the words 东戚 or after the nossation of the British Military Administration, the Governor
inserted in the same place. The words
"either of them respectively" shall be substituted for him,
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For the words "Chief Civil Affairs Officer" shall be substituted "Governor in Council".
There shall be substituted for the words "shall be guilty of an offence .. such imprisonment and fine" the warda
* shall be liable
(a) ou
conviction on indictment To imprisonment for any terru not exceeding five years and to a ne uot exceeding Ten thousand dollars;
(b) an
Buimary
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conviction imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ".
The following Article shall be sub. stituted: