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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & Co..
General Managers,
DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
For MOLLER & CO. (Hongkong), LTD.,
T. ORTON,
Director,
Agents for Muller & Co. (Shanghai), Ltd. For THE BRISBANE S. S. CO., LTD.,
CARMICHAEL & CLARKE,
Managers.
LUEN HING S. S. CO., LTD.,
LI KOON CHUN,
Managing Director.
LAI HING S. S. CO., LTD.,
LI KOON CHUN,
Chop of
The Po Shun
Managing Director.
PANG KOK-S01,
Secretary.
S. S. Co., Ltd.,
Hongkong.
WOLLOWRA S. S. CO., LTD.,
By Attorney,
S. T. WILLIAMSON.
UN MAN CHUEN,
By Attorney,
LAU HI-XAN.
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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 4, 1922.
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No. 341. The following Bill was read a second time and passed through Com- mittee at a meeting of Legislative Council held on Thursday, the 3rd August, 1922:-
C80 2566 2 1.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acts and matters done during the war and to provide in certain cases remedies in substitution therefor.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the lulemnity Short title. Ordinance, 1921.
2. In this Ordinance :—
Inter-
pretation, The Blue
1.) “The Blue Book Reports" means the reports
to rater and conditions published ju Book reports
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October, nineteen hundred and fourteen, by 10 & 11 the sub-committer of the Board of Arbitra- Geo. 5, c. 4. tion constituted under the proclamation Schedule, issued by His Majesty on the third day of
Pt. L. August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, subject to such increases or modifications thereof as may have been agreed to before the first day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty. (2.) The war eans the war devfared against The war.
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and 10 & 11 Bulgaria on the fourth day of Angust, the Geo. 3, e. 15, twelfth day of August, and the fifil day of 8. 7 (3). November, nineteen hundred and fourteen,'
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and the fifteenth day of October, nineteen
hundred and fifteen, respectively.
"War rish neaus those risks which would War risk.
be excluded from an ordinary English policy
of marine insurance by the following, or similar, but not more extensive clause :
Warranted free of capture, seizure, and
detention and the consequences thereof, or of any attempt thereat, piracy excepted, and also from ali consequences of Lustilities or war- like operations, whether before or after declaration of war.
3.—(1.) No action or other legal proceeding whats- Restrictions ever, whether civil or criminal, shall be insituted in on the taking muy court of law for or on account of or in respect of any of certain
or prosecution act, matter or thing done, whether within or withosit the Colony, during the war before the passing of this proevelings.
Legal Ordinance, if done in good faith, and doue or purported 19 & 17 to be done in the execution of bis duty, or for the Goa, 5, e. 48, defence of the realm, or for the public safety, or for the *. I. defence of the Colony, or for the enforcement of dis- ciptius, or otherwise in the public interest, by a person Holding office under or employed in the service of the Crown in any capacity, whether naval, military, air- force, or civil, or by a person holding office under or employed in the service of the Government of the Colony of Hongkong in any capacity, or by any other person acting under the authority of a person so hold- ing office or so employed, or for the recovery of any sum of money which was acquired by the Government of the Colony of Hongkong in cousequeber of any such act, matter or thing; and if any such proceeding has
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