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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 30, 1937.

Provided always, and it is hereby declared, that this Order shall not apply to any exportation or shipment as ship's stores which shall be expressly permitted by a licence given by the Board of Trade, and in accordance with the conditions (if any) of such licence.

2. The Merchant Shipping (Carriage of Munitions to Spain) Act, 1936, (a) shall apply to all articles enumerated in Article (1) of this order.

3.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Arms Export Prohibition Order, 1937.

(2) This Order and the Arms Export Prohibition Order, 1931,(b) shall be construed as one, and that Order and this Order may be cited together as the Arms Export Prohibition Orders, 1931-37.

(a) 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. c. 1.

(b) 1931 S.R. & 0. No. 413. The articles prohibited to be

exported by that Order are:--

(i) Cannon and other ordnance and component parts thereof; (ii) Carriages and mountings and accessories for mountings for cannon and other ordnance and component parts thereof;

(iii) Cartridges, charges of all kinds, and component parts

thereof;

(iv) Explosives of every description;

(v) Firearms of every description and component parts

thereof;

(vi) Grenades and component parts thereof;

(vii) Machine guns, interrupter gears, mountings for machine

guns and component parts thereof;

(viii) Projectiles of all kinds (except air-gun pellets) and com-

ponent parts thereof;

(ix) Mines, land or sea, and component parts thereof;

(x) Depth charges, apparatus for the discharge of depth

charges, and component parts thereof;

(xi) Bombs, bombing apparatus, and component parts

thereof;

(xii) Flame-throwers and component parts thereof;

(xiii) Fuses and component parts thereof;

(xiv) Torpedoes and component parts thereof;

(xv) Torpedo tubes, or other apparatus for discharging

torpedoes;

(xvi) Fire-control and gun-sighting apparatus and component

parts thereof;

(xvii) Appliances for use with arms and apparatus exclusively

designed and intended for land, sea or aerial warfare; (xviii) Bayonets, swords and lances, and component parts

thereof;

(xix) Tanks and armoured cars and component parts thereof; (xx) Aircraft, assembled or dismantled, and aircraft engines.

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