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CODY Extract from G.N. No. 5 (Hong Kong) dated 1.9.1945

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G.N. No. 5

ORDER

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In exercise of the powers conferred by the Emergency Powers (Defence) acts, 1939 and 1940, as applied to this Colony by the Amergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, and the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) (Amendment) Order in Council, 1940, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor makes the following orders:-

1. The Financial Secretary is hereby appointed Controller of Currency and a Competent authority for the purposes of the Defence Regulations.

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In this Order, "internment" means internment in Hong Kong by the Imperial Japanese Authorities and includes detention in a prisoners-of-war camp.

3. (1) Any person who, during internment, for any valuable consideration whatsoever, made any promissory note or bill of exchange, or any promise, oral or implied, to pay, whether in Hong Kong dollars or in any other currency, is hereby required, within three days of the issue of this Order, to report to the Controller of Currency every such transaction, in the form in the Schedule hereto.

(2) Any person who, for any valuable consideration whatsoever, received any promissory note or bill of exchange, or any promise, oral or implied, to pay, whether in Hong Kong dollars or in any other currency, provided that such promissory note, bill of exchange or promise, oral or implied, was mad● by a person during internment, is hereby required within three days of the issue of this Order, to report to the Controller of Currency every such transaction in the form in the Schedule hereto, and to deposit with the said Controller of Currency, every such promissory note or bill of exchange, to be held by him in safe custody pending the issue of further orders in respect thereof.

(3) No person shall tramfer to another person any such promissory note or bill of exchange as aforesaid, or transmit any such promissory note or bill of exchange by the mails, or export or attempt to export from the Colony any such promissory note or bill of exchange.

(4) No banker, unless and until so authorized by the Controller of Currency, shall honour or in any way deal with any such promissory note or bill of exchange,

(5) Any person who fails to comply with any of the above requirements or who, three days after the issue of this Order, is in possession of any promissory note ar bill of exchange as aforesaid, shall be guilty of an offence against the Defence Regulations.

DATED this First day of September, 1945.

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F.C. GIMSON,

Lieutenant Governor.