CO129-610-6 Marriage (War Period) (Validity) Ordinance 1948 26-4-1948 - 25-6-1948 — Page 12

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VIEU

DROIT

SUPPLEMENT NO. 1

TO THE

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority

SUP. TO GAZETTE No. 31]

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1948.

[VOL. XC

HONG KONG

No. 24 or 1948.

I assent.

L.S.

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A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.

17th June, 1948.

An Ordinance to determine the degree of validity to be accorded to money payments made and debts incurred during the period of enemy cccupation of the Colony and matters related thereto.

[17th June, 1948.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Debtor and Short title. Creditor (Occupation Period) Ordinance, 1948.

2. (1) In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise Interpreta- requires,

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absent means absent from territory under the sovereignty or in the occupation of the occupying power, and a body corporate shall be deemed to have been so absent while its registered office was not in any such territory;

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agent", in relation to the occupation period, includes a person deemed to have been an agent in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (2) of this section;

bank means any person, partnership or corporation carrying on the business of banking;

tion.