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the Inspector General of Police to serve on the licensee a notice specifying the nature and extent of such failure and requiring the licensee to reply and show cause in writ- ing, within fourteen days from the date of the service of such notice, why his licence should not be cancelled forthwith. If the licensee fails, within fourteen days after the service of such notice, to reply and show cause why his licence should not be cancelled, or if the Governor in Council, after considering the licensee's reply, is of the opinion that the licensee has not shown cause why his licence should not be cancelled, the Governor in Council may issue an order cancelling the licence in question, and every such order shall be posted to the licensee at his last known address and published in the Gazette. All the rights and obligations of any licensee whose licence has been can- celled as hereinbefore provided shall cease and determine absolutely as from the date of the order of cancellation (save in so far as may affect the liability of the licensee to pay royalty up to the date of such order), and the security required from and furnish- ed by such licensee shall become forfeited to the Colonial Government as from the same date Provided that the Governor in Council may in his discretion allow any such mitiga- tion or reduction as he may deem fit in the matter of the forfeiture of any security.

27. Any notice or communication to the licensee from the Governor in Council or the Government or any Government Department shall, if posted to the licensee at his last known address, be deemed to be duly served at the time when it ought in due course of post to be delivered at the address to which it is sent.

Attention called to particular Regulations.

28. The attention of tenderers is called to Regulations Nos. 20 to 22, 28 to 41 and 47 and 48 of the Regulations as to Public Motor Vehicle Services made by the Governor in Council on the 16th October. 1925, and appearing in the Regulations of Hong Kong, 1844 to 1925, at pages 658 to 665. These may be seen at the Colonial Secretary's Office.

Emergency Provision.

29. In the event at any time of any special emergency, the Governor in Council being the sole judge of the occasion and duration of such emergency, the Governor in Council may direct that the Hong Kong Government shall take over the service to which any licence relates, and continue the same, with or without modification, or suspend the same, as the Governor in Council shall see fit until the emergency no longer exists.

The amount (if any) due to the licensee consequent upon any such direction as afore- said shall be determined by a board of arbitrators constituted in the manner provided in Regulation 43 of the Regulations as to Public Motor Vehicle Services made by the Governor in Council on the 16th October, 1925.