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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 5, 1934.

And whereas it is expedient that the Orders in Council specified in the said First Schedule should be revoked:

And whereas it appears to His Majesty that due facilities are given by the Governments of the foreign countries specified in the Second Schedule hereto for recovering and apprehending seamen who desert from British merchant ships in those coun- tries:

And whereas the provisions of Section 1 of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, have been complied with:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by virtue of the powers vested in Him by the principal Act and by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order and declare, and doth hereby order and declare, as follows:---

1.--(1) This Order may be cited as "The Deserters from Foreign Ships Order, 1934”.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, (52-3 V. c. 63) shall apply to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

2. The Orders in Council specified in the First Schedule hereto are hereby revoked.

3. Section 238 of the principal Act shall apply in the case of each of the foreign countries specified in the Second Schedule hereto with regard to any seaman or apprentice who deserts from a merchant ship belonging to a subject of any such foreign country when within the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man or any Colony within the meaning of Section 11 of the Statute of Westminster, 1931.

E. C. E. LEADBITTER.

First Schedule.

Date of Order in Council.

16th October, 1852.

10th August, 1888.

24th September, 1886. 18th March, 1880. 28th May, 1889. 29th December, 1887. 27th August, 1860. 11th June, 1863. 18th August, 1892. 24th September, 1886. 7th March, 1887.

PART I.

Name of Foreign Country. Austria-Hungary.

Independent State of Congo. Republic of the Equator. Germany.

United States of Mexico. Republic of Paraguay. All the Russias. Republic of Salvador.

United States of America. Oriental Republic of the Uruguay. Zanzibar.