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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 10, 1915.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

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No. 532. His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under the provisions of Section 10 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, (Ordinance No. 1 of 1884), Mr. HERBERT WILLIAM LOOKER to be a Member of the Medical Board vice the Honourable Mr. EDBERT ANSGAR HEWETT, C.M.G., deceased, with effect from this date.

10th December, 1915.

NOTICES.

No. 533. The following Order of the King in Council is published for general information:

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AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 20TH DAY OF OCTOBER, 1915.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

HEREAS by the Declaration of London Order in Council No. 2, 1914, His Majesty was pleased to declare that, during the present hostilities, the provisions of the said Declaration of London should, subject to certain exceptions and modifications therein specified, be adopted and put in force by His Majesty's Government; and

Whereas, by Article 57 of the said Declaration, it is provided that the neutral or enemy character of a vessel is determined by the flag which she is entitled to fly; and

Whereas it is no longer expedient to adopt the said Article :

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, is pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that from and after this date Article 57 of the Declara- tion of London shall cease to be adopted and put in force.

In lieu of the said Article, British Prize Courts shall apply the rules and principles formerly observed in such Courts.

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This Order may be cited as The Declaration of London Order in Council, 1915.”

And the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and each of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, the President of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division of the High Court of Justice, all other Judges of His Majesty's Prize Courts, and all Governors, Officers, and Authorities whom it may concern, are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.

J. C. LEDLIE.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,

No. 534. It is hereby notified that by section 7 (2) of the National Registration Act, 1915, every person between the ages of 15 and 65 arriving in the United Kingdom after the passing of the Act is required within twenty-eight days after his arrival, if he has not been previously registered, to send or deliver to a local registration authority, by post or otherwise, notice of his arrival, together with the particulars concerning himself required by the Act to be registered, and, if so required, to attend at such place and time as the authority may appoint, and answer such questions as may be addressed to him for the purpose of enabling the necessary particulars to be registered.