CHINA AND JAPAN ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1881
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"Treaty" includes Convention, and any Agreement, Regulations, Rules, Ar- ticles, Tariff, or other instrument annexed to a Treaty, or agreed on in pursuance of any stip lation thereof:
"Month" meats calendar month:
Words importing the plural or the singular may be construed as referring to one person or thing, or more than one person or thing, and words importing the inasculine as referring to females (as the case may require).
Repeal.
4.--Subject to the provisions of this Order, Articles Eighty-five to Ninety-one, inclusive, of the China an1 Japan Order in Conneil, 1865, authorising the making of Regulations for the purposes and by the authority therein mentioned and the Regulations made thereunder, dated respectively 11th July, 1866, and 16th November, 1866, relating to mortgages, bill of sale, and proceedings against partnerships or partners or agents therof, and Rule 252 of the Rules of the Supreme Court and other Courts in China and Japan of 4th My, 1865, relating to proceedings by or against partnerships, and Articles One hundred and seventeen and One hundred and eighteen of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, relat ng to foreigners and foreign tribunals, are hereby repealed, from the commencement of this Order; but this repeal does not affect any right, title, obligation, or liability acquired or accrued before the commencement of this Order,
Confirmation of Regulations not Repealed.
5. Such Regulations as are described in the Schedule to this Order being Regulations made or expressed or intended to be made or in execution of the powers conferred by Actices Eighty-five to Ninety-one of the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, and all other Regulations made or expressed or intended to be so wale and having been approved or in case of urgency, not disapproved, under that Order, before the commencement of this Order, except the Regulations expressed to be repealed by this Order, are hereby confirmed, as from the passing of this Order and the same, as far as they are now in force, shall be in fore, and shall be deemed to have always been of the like validity and effect as if they had been originally made by Order in Council.
Authority for further Regulations.
6.-Her Majesty's Minister in China way from time to time, subject and according to the provisions of this Order, make such Regulations as to him seem fit for the peace, order, and gocd government of British subjects, resident in or resorting to China.
7. The power aforesail extends to the making of Regulations for securing observance of the stipulations of Treaties between Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and the Emperor of China, and for maintaining friendly relations between British subjects and Chinese subjects and authorities.
8.-ler Majesty's Minister in China may, as he thinks fit, make any Regulation under this Order extend either throughout China or to some one or more only of the Consular distric s in China.
9.--Her Majesty's Minister in China, in the exercise of the powers aforesaid, may, if h thinks fit, join with the Ministers of any foreign Powers in amity with Her Majesty in making or adopting Regulations with like objects as the Regulations described in the Schedule to this Order, common called the Shanghai Land Regulations, or any other Regulations or the municipal government of any foreign concession or settlement in China; as regards British subjects, joint Regulations so ma le shall be as valid and binding as if they related to British subjects only.
10.-Her Majesty's Minister in China may, by any Regulation made under this Order, repeal or alter auy Regulation made under the China and Japan Order in Council, 1865, or under any prior like authority.
11.-(a) Regulations made under this Order shall not have effect unless and until they are approved by Her Majesty the Queen, that approval being signified through one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State,--save that, in case of
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