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(3) If the person ordered to attend, having reasonable notice of the time and place at which he is required to attend, fails to attend accordingly, and does not excuse his failure to the satis- faction of the Court, he shall (independently of any other liability) be guilty of an offence against this Order.

155. When a British subject invokes or submits to the jurisdiction of a foreign Tribunal, and engages in writing to abide by the decision of such Tribunal, or to pay any fees or expenses ordered by such Tribunal to be paid by him, any Court under this Order may, on such evidence as it thinks fit to require, enforce payment of such fees and expenses in the same mauner as if they were fees payable in a proceeding by such person in that Court, and shall pay over or account for the same when levied to the proper foreign authority, as the Court may direct.

156.-(1) The Court may, upon the application of any person who has obtained a judgment or order for the recovery or payment of money in a foreign Court in Egypt against a person subject to the jurisdiction of that Court, and upon a certificate by the proper officer of the foreign Court that such judgment has been recovered or order made (specifying the amount), and that it is still unsatisfied, and that a British subject is alleged to be in- debted to such debtor and is within the jurisdiction, order that all debts owing or accruing from such British subject (herein- after called the garnishee) to such debtor shall be attached to answer the judgment or order, and, by the same or a subsequent order, may order the garnishee to pay his debt or so much as may be sufficient to satisfy the judgment or order of the foreign Court. (2) The proceedings for the summoning of the garnishee, for the ascertainment of his liability, and for the payment of money ordered by the Court to be paid, and all matters for giving effect to this Article, may be regulated by Rules of Court.

(3) An Order shall not be made under this Article unless the Court is satisfied that the foreign Court is authorized to exercise similar powers in the case of a debt due from a person subject to the jurisdiction of that Court to a British subject against whom a judgment has been obtained in a Court established under this Order.

Part VII.-King's Regulations.

157. The High Commissioner shall have power to make Regulations (to be called King's Regulations) for the following purposes, that is to say :-

(a) for the peace, order, and good government of British subjects in Egypt in relation to matters not provided for by this Order, and to matters intended by this Order to be prescribed by Regulation;

(b) for securing the observance of any Treaty for the time being in force relating to any place in Egypt, or of any

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local law or custom, whether relating to trade, com- merce, revenue, or any other matter;

(c) for preventing the importation or exportation in British ships or aircraft, or by British subjects of any arms or munitions of war, or any parts or ingredients thereof, and for giving effect to any Treaty relating to the importation or exportation of the same; (d) for requiring returns to be made of the nature, quantity and value of articles exported from or imported into Egypt, or any part thereof, by or on account of any British subject who is subject to this Order, or in any British ship or aircraft, and for prescribing the times and manner at or in which, and the persons by whom, such returns are to be made.

(2) Any Regulations made under this Article may provide for forfeiture of any goods, receptacles, or things in relation to which, or to the contents of which, any breach is committed of such Regulations, or of any Treaty or of any local law or custom, the observance of which is provided for by such Regulations.

(3) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to the punishment, forfeiture, or fine therein prescribed, or, if no such punishment or fine is prescribed, he shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine, or to both. Regulations imposing penalties shall be so framed as to allow in every case of part only of the highest penalty being imposed.

158. (1) Regulations made under this Order shall not have effect unless and until they are approved by a Secretary of State, save that, in case of urgency declared in any such Regulations, the same shall take effect before that approval, and shall continue to have effect unless and until they are disapproved by a Secretary of State, and until notification of that disapproval has been re- ceived and published by the High Commissioner.

159.—(1) 'All Regulations approved under this Order, whether imposing penalties or not, shall be printed, and a printed copy thereof shall be affixed, and be at all times kept exhibited conspicuously, in the public office of each Consulate in Egypt. Provided that Regulations having only a local application need only be affixed and kept exhibited in the localities in which they apply.

(2) Printed copies of the Regulations shall be kept on sale at such reasonable price as the High Commissioner from time to time directs.

(3) A printed copy of any Regulations purporting to be made under this Order, and to be certified under the hand of the High Commissioner, or under the hand and Consular seal of one of His Majesty's Consular officers in Egypt, shall be conclusive evidence of the due making of such Regulations.

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