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THE CHINA AND COREA (AMENDMENT) ORDER IN

COUNCIL, 1907

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 11TH DAY OF FEBRUARY, 1907

Present:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL

Whereas by Treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, and other lawful means, His Majesty the King has jurisdiction within the dominions of the Emperor of China and the Emperor of Corea:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf by "The Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890," or otherwise in His Majesty vested, is pleased by and with the advice of His Privy Council to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:-

1. This Order may be cited as "The China and Corea (Amendment) Order in Council, 1907," and shall be read as one with "The China and Corea Order in Council, 1904," hereinafter referred to as the "Principal Order.”

2.-(1) Where one or more commissioned Consular officers are stationed in a Consular district assigned to another commissioned Consular officer, the Minister may, if he thinks fit, appoint such commissioned Consular officer or officers to whom no district is assigned to be an additional Judge or additional Judges of the Provincial Court of the district.

(2) Where an officer is so appointed he shall hear and determine such matters, civil and criminal, being within the jurisdiction of a Provincial Court, as the Consular officer to whom the district is assigned, with the sanction of the Judge of the Supreme Court, directs.

(3) Where an officer is appointed under this Article he may sit at the same time and place as the Consular officer to whom the district is assigned, or in a different place, and each sitting shall be deemed a sitting of the Provincial Court of the district. 3. The following Article shall be substituted for Article 69 of the Principal Order :-

Any act which, if done in the United Kingdom or in a British Possession, would be an offence against any of the following Statutes of the Imperial Parliament or Orders in Council, that is to say :-

(a) The Merchandize Marks Act, 1887;

(b) The Patents, Designs, and Trade-marks Acts, 1883 to 1902;

(c) The Trade Marks Act, 1905;

(d) Any Statute amending or substituted for any of the above-mentioned

Statutes;

(e) Any Statute, or Order in Council for the time being relating to copy- right, or to inventions, designs, or trade-marks, of which a copy is kept exhibited in the public offices of the Consulates at Shanghai and Seoul, and is there open for inspection by any person at all reason- able times;

shall, if done by a British subject in China or Corea, be punishable as a grave offence against the Principal Order, whether such act is done in relation to any pro- perty or right of a British subject, or of a foreigner or native, or otherwise howsoever