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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 4, 1927.

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Provided always that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the Dominion of Canada so long as an Act of the Parliament of Canada, being Part I of chapter 155 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1906, and entitled An Act respecting the Extradition of Fugitive Criminals," shall continue in force there, and no longer.

Provided further that the operation of the said Acts shall be and remain suspended within the self-governing Dominions hereinafter named, that is to say, the Common- wealth of Australia (including for this purpose Papua and Norfolk Island), the Dominion of New Zealand, the Union of South Africa, the Irish Free State and Newfoundland, and India, until notification shall have been made in the London Gazette that the Treaty, as amended by the said Protocol of the 4th June, 1926, has been made applicable thereto, and that on such notification being made in respect of any such Dominion or India the said Acts shall apply in such Dominion or India in the case of the Czechoslovak Republic under and in accordance with the said Treaty, as amended by the said Protocol of the 4th June, 1926, as from the date of the said notification.

This Order may be cited as the "Czechoslovakia (Extradition) Order in Council, 1926."

A. H. L. HARDINGE.

No. 66.--The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

4th February, 1927.

WE

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 2ND DAY of December, 1926.

PRESENT:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

HEREAS on the 20th day of January, 1914, an International Convention for the safety of Life at Sea, and for purposes incidental thereto, was duly entered into by His Majesty and the other Signatory Powers more especially referred to and set out in the said Convention :

And whereas a Statute 4 & 5 Geo. V, c. 50, intituled "An Act to make such amendments of the law relating to Merchant Shipping as are necessary or expedient to give effect to an International Convention for the safety of Life at Sea" (being the Con- vention above referred to) was passed on the 10th day of August, 1914, the short title of which is "The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914":

And whereas by Section 29, Sub-section 5, of the said Act it was provided as follows:

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This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1915: Provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council from time to time, post- pone the coming into operation of this Act for such period, not exceed- ing on any occasion of postponement one year, as may be specified in the Order":

And whereas by divers Orders in Council the coming into operation of the said Act has been from time to time postponed, and now stands postponed, by virtue of an Order in Council of the 16th day of December, 1925, until the 1st day of January, 1927:

And whereas His Majesty deems it expedient that the provisions of the said Act. should be further postponed: