F
Renumber-
ing of
Ordinance
No. 28 of
1914, 8.5
Amendment
(16.) Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance contained, the Governor shall have power, in any case where it shall appear to him that the remuneration of any liquidator under the foregoing povisions would be inadequate, to award to such liquidator such remuneration as he shall think fit, i thereupon such liquida- tor shall be entitled to retain such increased remuneration out of the assets of the trade, or ont of the personal assets, of the alien enemy whose trade or personal affairs respectively he has been appointed to wind up: Provided that nothing in this sub-section shall be construed As affecting the rights of any secured creditor of euch alieu enomy."
8. Sub-section (12) of section 3 of the Principal Ordi- nance is rouumbered as sub-section (17).
9. Section 6 of the Principal Ordinance is amended as
(12).
of Onlinance follows:-
No. 28 of
1914, s. 6.
(a) by the substitution of the word "formerly
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for the word "previously" in the third line of sub-section (1);
(b) by the repeal of sub-section (8) and by the substitution therefor of the following sub- section :-
(3.) If any persou acta iu any way for any former principal of snel alien oncwy, or corresponds or deals with any person with whom such alien enemy Formerly had trade relations, he shall be presumed to be carrying on the trade formerly carried ou by such alieu enemy, unless he shall prove to the satisfaction of the magistrate or the court or the jury as the case may be (a) that such trade was bond fide assigned or parted with or abandoned by such alieu enemy before the 5th August, 1914, or (6) that he has boná fide established new trade relations with such principal or person with- out the intervention or assistance of such alieu enemy and that he is not trading in any way on account of or for the benefit of any alien enemy,"
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Amendment 10. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is amended
of Ordinance as follows:-
No. 28 of
1014, B. 10.
No alien
(a.) by the substitution of the word "affect" for
the word "effect" in the second line thereof;
(b) by the substitution of a colon for the full stop at the end thereof, and by the addition thereto of the following:-
"Provided that where a liquidator bas "been appointed to wind up the
"affairs of any trade formerly carried
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on in the Colony by an allen euomy
"or to wind up the personal affairs
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of any alies enemy no proceedlings in
bankruptcy shall be brought or be
maintained against any such alien "enemy so long as the appointment "of such liquidator, or of any person appointed as liquidator in sacres- "sion to such liquidator, shall remain "in force."
11. No alien enemy shall be entitled to present a bank-
enemy to be ruptcy petition against himself.
12. All the amendments made by this Ordinance in the Amend. Principal Ordinance shall be deemed to have been made in ments made the Principal Ordinance immediately upon the coming into by this operation of the Principal Ordinance.
Ordinance
to be deemed
made upon the com- mencement
to Eave been
of the Principal Ordinance.
13. No legal proceeding of any kind, except criminal Protection proceedings by way of indictment where such shall lie, of public shall be brought or be maintained by any person whatsoever officers. against any public officer in respect of any direction or per- mission bona fide given or refused in execution or intended execution or enforcement or intended enforcement of the Principal Ordinance or of this Ordinance or of any power conferred by either of the said Ordinances, whether such permission have been or may be given or refused before or after the commencement of this Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 3rd day of December, 1914.
M. J. BREEN,
Clerk of Councils.
Assanted to by His Excellency the Governor, the 4tli day of December, 1914.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
entitled to
present a
bankruptcy
petition
against
himself.
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