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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 29, 1937.

No. 64

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

The Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Munitions to Spain) Act, 1936, which extends to this Colony and to all ships registered therein or licensed under its laws, is published for general information.

29th January, 1937.

N. L. SMITH, Colonial Secretary.

Prohibition of the

I EDWARD VIII, CHAPTER I.

An Act to prohibit the discharge in or transhipment for Spanish territory of weapons and munitions of war and other articles from certain ships, to prohibit the carriage in such ships of such articles consigned to or destined for Spanish territory, and for purposes connected therewith.

[3rd December 1936.]

BE it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assem- bled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-

1.—(1) No article to which this Act applies shall be discharged at any port or place in Spanish territory or within the territorial waters adjacent thereto from a ship to which this Act applies, and no such article shall be transhipped on the high seas from any such ship into any vessel bound for any such port or place, and no such article consigned to or certain ships destined for any such port or place shall be taken on board

or carried in any such ship.

and tran- shipment for Spanish territory of munitions of war from

42 & 43 Vict. c. 21.

11 & 12 Geo. 5. c. 32.

(2) The articles to which this Act applies are-

(a) all articles which were on the twenty-third day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, prohibited to be exported from the United Kingdom by an Order in Council made by virtue of section eight of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1879, and section seventeen of the Finance Act, 1921 (which relate to weapons and munitions of war and other articles); and

(b) all articles which may after the passing of this Act be prohibited to be so exported by any such Order in Council and to which this Act is declared by that Order to apply.

(3) The ships to which this Act applies are- (a) all British ships, except ships registered-

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