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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 3, 1936.

Now, therefore, His Majesty by and with the advice of His Privy Council is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered as follows:—

Amendment of Article 2 of principal Order.

1.—(1) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1) of Article 2 of the principal Order, the Board of Trade may by licence authorise the importation of any goods which are prohibited to be imported by that paragraph if they are satisfied that the price of the goods was wholly paid on or before the nineteenth day of October, nineteen hundred and thirty-five.

(2) Any such licence may be issued by the President or a Secretary, Under-Secretary or Assistant-Secretary of the Board of Trade or any person authorised in that behalf by the President of the Board.

(3) The said paragraph (1) shall not apply to goods of any of the descriptions set out in the Schedule to this Order.

(4) Article 5 of the principal Order shall apply for the purposes of this Article as it applies for the purposes of that Order.

Amendment of Article 2 of principal Order.

2.-(1) Notwithstanding anything in the proviso to paragraph (2) of Article 3 of the principal Order, the delivery of goods the price whereof has been paid on or before delivery in manner referred to in that proviso shall be deemed to be the making of a loan within the meaning of that Article unless-

(a) the price has been wholly paid before the eighteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-five; or

(b) the goods are in course of transit on the said date. (2) This Article shall apply to the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands as it applies to the United Kingdom.

Settlement of certain Anglo-Italian debts.

3.-(1) The Treasury shall appoint a Controller of Anglo- Italian debts (hereinafter referred to as "the Controller"), and no debts to which this Article applies shall be paid other- wise than to the Controller in manner hereinafter provided.

(2) The debts to which this Article applies are all debts due before and owing on the eighteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, or due on or after that date, from persons ordinarily resident or ordinarily carrying on business in the United Kigndom to persons ordinarily resident or ordinarily carrying on business in the Kingdom of Italy in respect of-

(a) the sale of goods grown, produced or manufactured in the Kingdom of Italy (other than goods of any of the descriptions set out in the Schedule to this Order which are imported into the United Kingdom on or after the said eighteenth day of November); or

(b) the carriage of any goods whatsoever from or to the United Kingdom to or from the Kingdom of Italy in ships registered under the law of the Kingdom of Italy.

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