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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 17, 1915.

9. The Companies Ordinances, in so far as they affect Application companies carrying on business within the limits of the of China China Orders-in-Council, shall be read with and subject Order-in-

(Companies) to the Chiua (Companies) Order-in-Council, 1915,

Council, 1915.

10. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st Commence- day of January, 1916.

ment.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th

day of December, 1915.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Cuncils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 17th

day of December, 1915.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

HONGKONG.

No. 32 of 1915.

LS

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY, Governor.

17th December, 1915.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to

importation and exportation.

[17th December, 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 Importation and Short title. Exportation Ordinance, 1915.

2. In this Ordinance :-

(c.)

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(a.) "Person", except so far as relates to the imposition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate, a firm, and any other association of persons or organisation; (6.) Ship" includes every description of vessel used in navigation or for the carriage of goods; "To attempt to export' ineans to do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of exporta- tion, provided that an application for an export permit under this Ordinance shall not be deemed to be an attempt to export if such application be in all respects in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance and of all Orders-in-Council made thereunder ; (d.) "To export" means to carry out of the Colony or to cause to be carried out of the Colony and includes the carriage out of the Colony of things which were carried into the Colony by water and which are, without transhipment into any other vessel, carried out of the Colony on the same vessel on which they were carried into the Colony ;

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(e.) To import means to carry into the Colony

or to cause to be carried into the Colony;

Interpreta- tion.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to Powers of the exercise all or any of the following powers :—

Governor- in-Council

(a.) To prohibit the importation of any article, with regard either generally or from a particular country or to importa-

place;

tion.

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