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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 3, 1936.

(b) any bill of exchange given by way of payment (whether absolute or conditional) of a debt in respect of any such price as aforesaid:

Provided that, where any such bill of exchange has been accepted on or before the fourteenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, or where any such bill of exchange, being a cheque, has been drawn and delivered on or before the seventeenth day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, this Article shall not apply to any debt in respect of the bill, or, if the bill was given by way of conditional payment, to the debt by way of payment of which the bill was given.

For the purposes of this paragraph any liability for damages in respect of the dishonour of a bill of exchange shall be deemed to be a debt due in respect of that bill."

Short Title and Interpretation.

2. (1) This Order may be cited as the Treaty of Peace (Covenant of the League of Nations) (No. 3) Order, 1935.

(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, as amended by any subsequent enactment, applies to the interpretation of this Order as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of Parliament.

M. P. A. HANKEY.