AND WHEREAS the legislature of the Colony has by the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, (hereinafter called "the Ordinance'') provided that certain provisions of the Act, (not being provisions of the Third Part thereof which relate to emigrant ships) relating to ships registered in the Colony shall be repealed;
AND WHEREAS it is provided by section 118 of the Ordinance that the Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor notifies by proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the Ordinance and thereafter the Ordin- ance shall come into operation on such day as the Governor shall by the same or any other proclamation appoint;
AND WHEREAS by the Merchant Shipping (Confirmation of Legislation) (Hong Kong) Order in Council, 1953, Her Majesty in Council has confirmed the Ordinance;
NOW THEREFORE, I, the said ROBERT BROWN BLACK, do hereby notify and proclaim that it is Her Majesty's pleasure to approve the Ordinance and not to disallow the same and I do further notify and proclaim that the Ordinance shall come into operation on the 30th day of October, 1953-
GIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hong Kong, this 23rd day of October, 1953.
By His Excellency's Command,
Claude Burgess
Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN,
(Secretariat 1/7/2571/47)
PROCLAMATION
Mantan
HIS
No. 4.
WILLIAM
BY
EXCELLENCY SIR ALEXANDER GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.
WHEREAS by section of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, 1953 (Ordinance No. 28 of 1953), it is provided that the said Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by proclamation in the Gazette.
Now THEREFORE I, ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, do hereby PROCLAIM that the Ordinance shall come into operation on the 1st day of December,
1953.
GIVEN under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of of Hong Kong, this 19th day of November, 1953- Published by His Excellency's Command,
Colonial Secretary,
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN.