CO129-530-7 Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance- 1931 6-2-1931 - 6-8-1931 — Page 5

No. 1.

PROCLAMATION.

[L.S.]

W. PEEL,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir WILLIAM l'EEL, Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same.

Whereas by the fourth section of the Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1931, (Ordinance No. 5 of 1931), it is provided that the said Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and that thereafter it shall come into opera- tion upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation:

Now I, the said Sir WILLIAM PEEL, do hereby notify and proclaim that it is His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the said Ordinance and that the said Ordinance shall come into operation on the 31st day of July, 1931.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony of Hong Kong, this 30th day of July, 1931.

By His Excellency's Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING..

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary

Extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 34 of the 31st July, 1931)

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