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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1937.

No. 390

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

With reference to Government Notification No. 64 of 1937 publishing the text of the Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Munitions to Spain) Act, 1936, the text of the Merchant Shipping (Spanish Frontiers Observation) Act, 1937, which relates to ships to which the Act of 1936 applies and which extends to all those parts of His Majesty's dominions and other countries to which the Act of 1936 extends, and which came into force at midnight G.M.T. on April 19th/20th, is published for general information.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonial Secretary.

4th June, 1937.

I EDWARD VIII & I GEORGE VI.

CHAPTER 19.

An Act to amend the law relating to merchant shipping for the purpose of enabling effect to be given to an international agreement for establishing a system of observation of the Spanish frontiers.

[19th March 1937.]

WHEREAS His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom have, by an agreement (hereafter referred to as "the observation agreement") embodied in a resolution adopted on the eighth day of March nineteen hundred and thirty-seven by the International Committee for the applica- tion of the agreement regarding non-intervention in Spain, agreed with the Governments of certain other countries to establish in the manner provided in the observation agree- ment, unless otherwise amended or determined, a system of observation of the Spanish frontiers for the purpose of ascertaining whether the agreement regarding non-interven- tion in Spain is being effectively observed:

AND WHEREAS the said system, under the terms of the observation agreement, is to be carried into effect by a body referred to therein as "the International Board for Non-intervention in Spain" and by certain officers, who are referred to in the observation agreement and in this Act as "the chief administrator", 'administrators", "deputy administrators" and "observing officers";

AND WHEREAS, in order to enable effect to be given to the said agreement, it is expedient to make such amend- ments of the law relating to merchant shipping as are hereafter contained in this Act:

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