IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION ORDINANCE. (Chapter 50).
EXPORTATION of Cotton MANUFACTURES (PROHIBITION) REGULATIONS, 1959.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations-
1. These regulations may be cited as the Exportation of Cotton Citation, Manufactures (Prohibition) Regulations. 1959.
2. No person shall, except under an export licence granted by Prohibition the Director of Commerce and Industry, export from the Colony to af cotton of export the United Kingdom any manufactures wholly or mainly of cotton manufactures other than manufactures specified in the Schedule.
Except under licence. Schedule.
3. These regulations shall have effect from the 1st day of Churation, February, 1959. until the 31st day of January, 1962, both dates inclusive.
SCHEDULE.
Yarns and threads.
Sacks and bags.
Stockings and socks.
Knivsed clothing.
Gloves,
Footwear.
[reg. 2.]
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
13th January, 1959.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
A specially appointed Negotiating Committee, representative of the Hong Kong textile industry. after holding discussions with representatives of the United Kingdom Cotton Board, has undertaken to restrict exports of cotton goods to the United Kingdom to an agreed annual amount for a period of three years only and has asked the Hong Kong Government to make the necessary legal and administrative arrangements for the proper carrying out of the under- taking.
1 These regulations therefore, provide that with the exception of those manufactures specified in the Schedule thereto, no person shall export any manufacture wholly or mainly of cotton without an export licence,
(Secretariat CR7/5401/54)
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