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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 7, 1915.

I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

Short title.

Leave necessary for legal proceedings.

[7th May, 1915.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Alien Enemies (Wind- ing up) Ordinance, 1914, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and with the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Amendment Ordinance, 1914.

2.-(1.) No action or other legal proceeding shall without the permission of the Governor be brought by or against any liquidator appointed under the Principal Ordi- nance in respect of the trade or personal affairs which such liquidator was appointed to wind up, or against any alien enemy whose trade or personal affairs a liquidator has been appointed to wind up.

(2.) Any such permission may be limited to the taking of such proceedings only as may be necessary in order to prevent the operation of any enactment whereby the com- mencement of the action or legal proceeding might be limited.

(3.) No further proceeding of any kind whatsoever shall without the permission of the Governor be taken in any action or other legal proceeding which was begun before the commencement of this Ordinance by or against any such liquidator in respect of the trade or personal affairs which he was appointed to wind up, or against any alien enemy whose trade or personal affairs a liquidator has been appointed to wind up.

(4.) No further proceeding of any kind whatsoever shall without the permission of the Governor be taken in any action or other legal proceeding which was or shall have been begun against any such alien enemy before the appointment of a liquidator to wind up the trade or pre- sonal affairs of such alien enemy.

(5.) Where by the law and practice of the Supreme Court or by any special order any limited time from and after any date or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding in any such action or other legal proceeding as is referred to in this section any time which elapses between the date of the commencement of this Ordinance and the date ou which any permission of the Governor to take further proceedings in the said action or other legal proceeding shall be served on the other party or parties by the party obtaining such permission, both dates inclusive, shall not be reckoned in the computation of such limited time.

(6.) No execution of any kind whatsoever shall without the express permission of the Governor issue against any` such liquidator or any such alien enemy in any such action or other legal proceeding as is referred to in this section, whether any general permission to begin the action or other legal proceeding or to take further proceedings therein shall have been obtained from the Governor or not.

(7.) No plaintiff in any such action or other legal pro- ceeding as is referred to in this section shall be deemed to be a secured creditor by reason only of any order or judg- ment made or given in such action or other legal proceed- ing before the commencement of this Ordinance or by reason only of such order or judgment and of any steps taken thereunder.