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C.S.O. 4526/26.

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A BILL

[No. 2: 3.3.26.-2.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to repeal certain enactments imposing disabilities on former enemy aliens.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Former Enemy Short title. Aliens (Disabilities Removal) Ordinance, 1926.

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2. The enactments mentioned in the Schedule, which Repeal of impose disabilities on subjects, citizens and companies of certain enact- former enemy countries in connection with immovable pro- perty dealt with in liquidations under the Alien Enemies disabilities on (Winding up) Ordinances, 1914 to 1917, and in respect of former enemy the carrying on of banking business within the Colony, aliens. and in respect of service on board British ships registered in the Colony, are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of the Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Year and number.

Short title.

Extent of repeal.

28 of 1914. Alien Enemies (Wind-

ing up) Ordinance,

1914.

Paragraphs (b), (e) and (i) of section 2, see- tions 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29, and Forms Nos. 3 and 4 in the Schedule.

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Business The whole Ordi-

2 of 1919. Banking

(Prohibited Control) Ordinance, 1919.

8 of 1922. | Merchant

Shipping

(Aliens

ment)

Employ- Ordinance,

1922.

uance.

Sections 2 and 4, the words "or a former enemy alien" in section ́ 5, and the words "and of former enemy aliens" in the long title.

Objects and Reasons.

1. In the treaty of commerce and navigation between United Kingdom and Germany which was ratified on the 8th September, 1925, His Majesty's Government under- took to recommend to Parliament the necessary legislation for the removal of certain disabilities affecting German companies which did not extend to the subjects or citizens or companies of the most favoured foreign country. This resulted in the passing of the Former Enemy Aliens (Dis- abilities Removal) Act, 1925, 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 43. This Colony proposes to give notice of desire to adhere to the above treaty, and it therefore becomes necessary to legislate here in the same way as in the United Kingdom. This bill, therefore, proposes to repeal three enactments which were directed against former enemy aliens, i.e., provisions