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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 powe collectively with respect to China and Corea or any parts thereof, of 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 subject

in relation to matters not provided for by this Order, and te matt is intended by this Order to be prescribed by Regulation (b) For securing the observance of any Treaty for the time being

force relating to any place or of any native or local law or custor whether relating to trade, commerce, revenue, or any othe

matter.

(c) For regulating or preventing the importation or exportation

British ships or by British subjects of arms or munitions of wa or any parts or ingredients thereof, and for giving effect to an 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 i subject to this Order, or in any British ship, and for prescribin the times and manner at or in which, and the persons by whom such returns are to be made.

(2) Any Regulations made under this Article may provide fo forfeiture of any goods, receptacles, or things in relation to which, or t the contents of which, any breach is committed of such Regulations, of any Treaty or any native or local law or custom, the observance of whic is provided for by such Regulations.

(3) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shal in addition to any forfeiture prescribed thereby, be liable, on conviction to imprisonment, for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine, to both.

(4) Any fine imposed for a breach of Regulations shall not excee £50: Provided that where the breach is of any Regulation relating customs law, or to the importation or exportation of any goods, the fir may extend to a sum equivalent to treble the value of the goods in relatio to which the breach is committed.

156. His Majesty's Ministers in China and Corea respectively, the exercise of the powers aforesaid, may, if they think fit, join with Ministers of any foreign Powers in amity with His Majesty in making adopting Regulations for the municipal government of any foreign co cession or settlement in China or Corea as the case may be; and as regar British subjects, such joint Regulations shall be as valid and binding if they related to British subjects only.

157.—(a) Regulations made or adopted under this Order shall n have effect as respects British subjects unless and until they are approv by His Majesty the King, that approval being signified through th Secretary of State-save that, in case of urgency declared in any su Regulations, the same shall take effect before that approval, and sha continue to have effect unless and until they are disapproved by H Majesty the King, and until notification of that disapproval has be received and published by His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea the case may be.