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DRAFT ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Court at

The

day of

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Short title and inter- pretation.

The King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.

Whereas circumstances have arisen in the Colony of

Hong Kong(hereinafter called "the Colony") which render it

expedient that provision should be made whereby functions

exercisable by the Governor of the Colony (hereinafter

called "the Governor") and other authorities under laws in

force in the Colony should, so long as the said

circumstances continue, be exercisable by one of His

Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State or by the Minister

of War Transport, and that such laws should be modified in

other respects;

functions

And whereas the said powers include those conferred upon the Governor by the Emergency Powers (Defence)Act,

1939, and by certain provisions of the Merchant Shipping

Acts, 1894 to 19407 in their application to the Colony;

Now, therefore, His Majesty in exercise of his

powers under the said Acts and of all other powers

enabling him

im in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the

advice of his Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby

1

ordered, as follows :-

1.(1)This Order may be cited as the Hong Kong(Temporary

Provisions) Order in Council, 1942.

(2)In this Order, the word "enactment" means

(a)

any Ordinance,

(b)

(c)

any provision, not made by virtue of an Act of Parliament, contained in an Order of His Majesty in Council,

any Regulations, Rules, Order, Proclamation or other instrument made under an Ordinance or provision as aforesaid,

having the force of law in the Colony on the twenty-fifth

day of December, 1941.

(3)