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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 30, 1915.
by any person, may issue a warrant authorising a British subject appointed by the Minister or by any Consular Officer in his own district and named in the warrant to inspect all books or documents belonging to or under the control of that person, and to require any British subject able to give any information with respect to the business or trade of that person to give that information, and if accompanied by an officer of the Court, to enter and search any premises to which the jurisdiction of the Court extends and which are used in connection with the business or trade, and to seize any such books or documents as aforesaid.
(2) If any person having the custody of any book or document inspection of which has been authorised under this Regulation refuses or wilfully neglects to procure it for inspection, or if any such person who is able to give any information which may be required to be given under this Regulation refuses or wilfully neglects when required to give that information, that person shall, upon conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine of £50 or to both.
IX. Where any company has entered into a transaction or has done any act which is an offence under these Regulations, every director, manager, secretary or other officer of the company who is knowingly a party to the transaction or act shall be guilty of an offence under these Regulations and shall, upon conviction, be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding £50, or to both.
X. Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit payments by or on account of enemies to persons resident, carrying on business, or being in His Majesty's Dominions if such payments arise out of obligations, other than those of or relating to insurance or re-insurance of whatever nature, entered into before the outbreak of war.
XI. Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to prohibit anything which may at any time hereafter be expressly permitted by licence granted by His Majesty or by a licence given on behalf of His Majesty or by a Secretary of State or given on the like behalf by the Minister, whether such licence be specially granted to individuals or be announced as applying to classes of persons.
XII. The Trading with the Enemy Regulations 1915 made on January 29th, 1915, are hereby repealed as from the 26th day of July, 1915.
XIII. These Regulations may be eited as the "Trading with the Enemy (Amend- ment) Regulations, 1915."
J. N. JORDAN, His Britannic Majesty's Minister.
Peking, July 12th, 1915.
No. 345. The following amendments of the Grant Code, 1914, taking effect from the 1st July, 1915, are published for general information :
In Article 45 (b) the figures $60 are deleted and the figures $30 substituted therefor; and in (c) of the same Article the figures $30 are deleted and the figures $15 substituted therefor.
No. 346.It is hereby notified that at the next meeting of the Legislative Council a resolution will be moved as follows:
Resolved by the Legislative Council that the percentage on the valuation of tene- ments payable as rates on the under-mentioned lots be altered as from the 1st July, 1915, as follows :-
Shaukiwan Marine Lots Nos. 1 to 10 (both inclusive),...From 124% to 10%. Shaukiwan Inland Lot No. 408,
121% to 10%.
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CLAUD SEVERN,
30th July, 1915.
Colonial Secretary.
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