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King's Regulations.
Municipal Regulations.
Approval of Regulations.
ORDERS IN COUNCIL
in the case of a debt due from a person subject to the jurisdiction of that Court to a British subject against whom a judgment has been obtained in a Court established under this Order.
VIII.-REGULATIONS.
155. His Majesty's Ministers in China and Corea shall have power collectively with respect to China and Corea or any parts thereof, or severally with respect to China or Corea, or any parts thereof as the case may be, to make Regulations (to be called King's Regulations) for the following purposes, that is to say:-
(a) For the peace, order, and good government of British subjects in relation to matters not provided for by this Order, and to matters intended by this Order to be prescribed by Regulation. (b) For securing the observance of any Treaty for the time being in force relating to any place or of any native or local law or custom whether relating to trade, commerce, revenue, or any other
matter.
(c) For regulating or preventing the importation or exportation in British ships or by British subjects of arms or munitions of war, or any parts or ingredients thereof, and for giving effect to any Treaty relating to the importation or exportation of the same. (d) For requiring returns to be made of the nature, quantity, and value of articles exported from or imported into his district, any part thereof, by or on account of any British subject who is subject to this Order, or in any British ship, and for prescribing the times and manner at or in which, and the persons by whom, such returns are to be inade.
(2) Any Regulations made under this Article may provide for forfeiture of any goods, receptacles, or things in relation to which, or to the contents of which, any breach is committed of such Regulations, or of any Treaty or any native or local law or custom, the observance of which is provided for by such Regulations.
(3) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shall, in addition to any forfeiture prescribed thereby, be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment, for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine, or
to both.
(4) Any fine imposed for a breach of Regulations shall not exceed £50: Provided that where the breach is of any Regulation relating to customs law, or to the importation or exportation of any goods, the fine may extend to a sum equivalent to treble the value of the goods in relation to which the breach is committed.
156. His Majesty's Ministers in China and Corea respectively, in the exercise of the powers aforesaid, may, if they think fit, join with the Ministers of any foreign Powers in amity with His Majesty in making or adopting Regulations for the municipal government of any foreign con- cession or settlement in China or Corea as the case may be; and as regards British subjects, such joint Regulations shall be as valid and binding as if they related to British subjects only.
157.-(a) Regulations made or adopted under this Order shall not have effect as respects British subjects unless and until they are approved by His Majesty the King, that approval being signified through the Secretary of State-save that, in case of urgency declared in any such Regulations, the same shall take effect before that approval, and shall continue to have effect unless and until they are disapproved by His Majesty the King, and until notification of that disapproval has been received and published by His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea as the case may be.
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