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Power by Order in Council to give effect to amend- ments of agreement

and

arrange-

ments made

in pur-

suance thereof.

Short title, construction, interpreta- tion, extent,

commence- ment and duration.

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 4, 1937.

3.-(1) His Majesty may make such Orders in Council as appear to him to be necessary or expedient for the purpose of giving effect to any arrangements made in pursuance of the provisions of the observation agreement relating to merchant shipping or to any further agreement amending or supplementing those provisions, and any such Order may contain provisions for the imposition by summary process or otherwise of penalties in respect of breaches of the Order and provisions for the amendment of this Act or any other enactment relating to merchant shipping.

(2) Any Order in Council made under this section may be varied or revoked by a subsequent Order in Council.

(3) Any Order in Council made under this section for giving effect to any further agreement amending or supple- menting the observation agreement shall cease to have effect at the expiration of a period of twenty-eight days from the date when the Order is made, unless before the expiration of that period each House of Parliament has by resolution approved the Order, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or the making of a new Order:

Provided that in reckoning any such period of twenty- eight days no account shall be taken of any time during which Parliament is dissolved or prorogued or during which the Commons House is adjourned for more than four days.

4.-(1) This Act may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Spanish Frontiers Observation) Act, 1937.

(2) This Act and the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1936, shall be construed as one and may be cited together as the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1937.

(3) For the purposes of this Act—

(a) references to the administrator at a place shall, in a case where there is no administrator at that place, be construed as references to the deputy administrator at that place;

(b) the expression "the authority" means such body as may be certified by the Board of Trade to be the body entrusted by the International Board for Non-intervention in Spain with the functions of the authority under this Act such certificate is given, the said International

or,

if no Board.

(c) references to an owner of a ship shall include references to a charterer;

(d) the expression "Spanish territory" includes the Spanish zone of Morocco, but shall not, until such date as the Board of Trade may by order appoint, include the Canary Islands;

(e) the expression "waters adjacent to Spanish territory" means any part of the sea within ten sea miles from any point on the coast of any Spanish territory.

(4) This Act shall extend to all those parts of His Majesty's dominions and other countries to which the Act of 1936 extends.