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THE CHINA (AMENDMENT) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1914

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE, THE 30TH DAY OF MARch, 1914

PRESENT:-

The King's Most Excellent Majesty

Lord President

Viscount Knollys

Lord Colebrooke Lord Emmott

Whereas by treaty, grant, usage, sufferance, or other lawful means His Majesty the King has jurisdiction in China:

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 (Amendment) Order in Council, 9141," and shall be read as one with the China Order in Council, 1904, hereinafter referred to as the "Principal Order," and this Order and the China Orders in Council, 1904 to 1913, may be cited together as the "China Orders in Council, 1904 to 1914.”

2.—(1) In addition to the documents to be deposited and filed in the office of a consulate, in accordance with Article 46 of the China (Amendment) Order in Council, 1913, on the registration of a company in accordance with the provisions of that Order, there shall be deposited and filed a list of the directors of the company showing in respect of each director his full name and nationality and his address.

(2) Every company registered under the China (Amendment) Order in Council, 1913, shall register in the month of January in every year a list of the directors of the company, showing in respect of each director his full name and nationality and his address, and shall from time to time, as may be necessary, register any altera- tions in such list.

(3) On every registration under sub-article (2) of this article there shall be payable a fee of 28.

3. Where any municipal regulations or byelaws have been established for any foreign concession in China the Court may entertain a complaint against a British subject for a breach of such municipal regulations or byelaws, and may enforce compliance therewith.

Provided

(1) That the said municipal regulations or byelaws have been accepted by His Majesty's Government. Acceptance of the municipal regulations or byelaws of a foreign concession by His Majesty's Goivenment shall be signified by a copy thereof being exhibited and kept exhibited in the public office of His Majesty's consulate at such treaty port.

(2) That no punishment other in nature or greater in degree than that

provided by the Principal Order shall be imposed.

(3) That the Court is satisfied that effectual provision exists for the punishment in the Court of the foreign Powers whose municipal regulations or byelaws it is sought to enforce of breaches by the subjects or citizens of that Power of the municipal regulations or byelaws of British concessions in China.

4. In article 21 of the China (Amendment) Order in Council, 1913, the reference to article 13 should be read as a reference to article 19, and in article 29 the references to articles 21 and 22 should be read as references to articles 27 and 28, and in article 50 the reference to article 41 should be read as a reference to article 48. And the Right Honourable Sir Edward Grey, Baronet, K.G., one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, is to give the necessary directions herein.

ALMERIC FITZROY.