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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 29, 1937.

Short title, construction, interpreta- tion, extent and dura-

tion.

57 & 58 Vict. c. 60.

53 & 54 Vict. c. 37.

52 & 53

Vict. c. 63.

(8) Anything which has been done before the com- mencement of this Act in purported exercise of any such power as is mentioned in subsection (6) of this section, and which would have been lawfully done if this Act had come into operation on the twenty-third day of November, nineteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be deemed to have been lawfully

done.

(9) For the purposes of this Act the expression "Spanish territory" shall include the Spanish zone of Morocco.

2. (1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Munitions to Spain) Act, 1936.

(2) This Act and the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1932, shall be construed as one, and those Acts and this Act may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1936.

(3) In this Act the expression "the principal Act" means the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.

(4) This Act shall extend, not only to the United King- dom, but also to--

(a) the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands, British India, Newfoundland and every colony; and

(b) every country to which Part XIII of the principal Act for the time being extends by virtue of an Order in Council made under section five of the Foreign Jurisdiction Act, 1890.

(5) This Act shall continue in force until His Majesty by Order in Council is pleased to declare that it is no longer necessary or expedient that it should continue in force:

Provided that on the expiration of this Act subsection (2) of section thirty-eight of the Interpretation Act, 1889, (which relates to the effect of repeals) shall apply as if this Act had been repealed by another Act.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 65. It is notified for general information that 'experimental tests of a siren will be carried out in Hong Kong and Kowloon at about 5 p.m. on various dates during the month of February, 1937.

29th January, 1937.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.