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less the face value of any withdrawals in occupation
currency.
CLAUSE 8
This clause should be subject to the following
provisions:—
(a) provided that where interest has since the
occupation period been paid by agreement between the parties such agreement shall not be re-opened;
(b) provided that nothing in this section shall
affect intereat recoverable as part of the debt or under the Bills of Exchange Act 1882 or local enactment to the same effect; (c) provided also that the Court in deciding
whether or not relif should be granted should in particular have regard to the loss sustained by the creditor by reason of his being deprived of his money.
In the event of a modification or cancellation of Proclamation No. prohibiting the registration
of securities dealt in after December 25, 1941,
without the approval in writing of the Finance Controllern it is suggested that some provision be made whereby after a notice should first be given in writing by any creditor to the Company concerned of any stock, share, bond or debenture, charged to the creditor by way of security and released by the Japanese, and that after such notice no transfer should be registered until the Court has decided on an orig- inating summons whether or not the security should not be reinstated and returned to the possession of
the Creditor.
In many cases debtors who on the purported payment
of their debts obtained the release of their secur- ities from the Japanese liquidator have the deposited again with the Banks pending legislation. In these cases it is assumed that the securities will remain under charge to the Bank under Clause 9 (1).
The statement made in Part II (vi) that there have J been no entries by the Japanese in the Hong Kong land
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