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Power Governor

in Councl

Do vary Schedule.

Saving-

Ordinance No. 7 of 1906. Ordinance No. ga of THIS.

Regulations.

10. The Governor in Council may from time to time by order alter, vary or in any manner amend the Schedule to this Ordinance.

11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be deemed to exempt any person from compliance with the provisions or requirements of the Prospecting and Mining Ordinance, 1906, or the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, or any other enactment.

12. The Governor in Council may make such regulations for giving better effect to the provisious of this Ordinance as he may deem to be necessary or expedient.

HÀNG KENG

No 44 or 1948.

I masent

SCHEDULE.

(1) Minerals of the pitchblende group, including pitchblende, uraninîte,

ulrichite, broggerite, cleveite, and related mineral species.

(2) Torberuite and autunite.

(3) Secondary uranium minerals other than torberuite and autunite, including rutherfordine, uranite, prauophane, gummite, thorogum- mite, uranociruite, kasulite, becquerelite, and other silicates, hydrates, carbonates, phosphates or arsenates of uranium.

(4) Carnotite and tyuyamunite.

(5) Uranium-bearing niobate-titanate-tantalate ores, including euxonito, polycrase, blomstrandine, priorite, samarskite, fergusonite, hatafite, plumboniobite, and related mineral species containing over one por cent. uranium oxide.

(6) Monazite, thorite, thorianite and radio-active zircon.

Fassed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of August, 1948.

Alarmin

al

Deputy Clerk of Councils,

What

Governor.

26th August, 1948.

An Ordinance to relieve tenants from payment of rent in respect of the period of Japanese occupation and to adjust the rights of landlords and tenants.

[27th August, 1948.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof;

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Rent (War Period) Short útle. Relief Ordinance, 1948.

2 In this Ordinance-

The expressions "landlord" and "tenant" shall include their executors, administrators and assigns;

"premises" means the premises subject to a tenancy whether Buch tenancy was for domestic, office, professional, business, trade or other pt.rposes and includes a pier or wharf;

"tenant" includes the Crown, a sub-tenant and a statutory tenant but does not include any person holding directly from the Crown:

'war period" means the period commencing with the 8th of Decamber, 1941, and ending with the 18th Septembar. 1945.

3. Save as bereinafter expressly provided-

Interpreta-

tion.

Reat during

the war period

SVC BS

(4) all claims for payment of rent payable for

ay premises irrecoverable, in respect of any period comprised in the war period shall be deemed bereinafter to have been waived;

provided.