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HON KONG

124 or 1948.

I assent.

Alhar

Governor.

17th June, 1948.

An Ordinance to determine the degree of validity to be

accorded to money payments made and debts incurred during the period of enemy occupation of the Colony and måtters related thereto.

[17th June, 1948.1

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 Debtor and short title. Creditor (Occupation Period) Ordinance, 1948.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpreta requires,-

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absent means absent from territory under the sovereignty or in the occupation of the occupying power, and a body corporate shall be deemed to have been so absent while its registered office was not in any such territory;

agent", in relation to the occupation period, includes a person deemed to have been an agent in accordance with

the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section;

"bank" means any person, partnership or corporation carrying on the business of banking;

tion.