46026-1916-Further-Amendment-of-the-Rules-made-under-the-Importation-and-Exportation-Ordinance-1915 — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 7, 1916.

No. 142.

179

Order made by the Governor-in-Council under Sections 3 and 4 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, (Ordinance No. 32 of 1915), on the 6th day of April, 1916.

The rules made by the Governor-in-Council under the above Ordinance which were published in the Gazettes of the 7th, 14th and 21st January, 1916, respectively, are hereby amended as follows:-

1. Rule 1, published in the Gazette of the 7th January, 1916, is renumbered Rule 1(1), and the following clause is added thereto, and is numbered Rule 1(2):-

(2.) Where the Superintendent of Imports and Exports endorses any import statement to the effect that the articles specified in the said import state- ment, or any one or more of such articles, may be imported, no further permit or licence shall be necessary for the importation of any article to which such endorsement applies: Provided that every such endorsement shall be construed as subject to Conditions (1), (2), (3) and (4) in the form of import licence set forth in the Third Schedule hereto.

2. Rule 34, published in the Gazette of the 21st January, 1916, is repealed.

3. The following rules are added to the said rules so published in the Gazette as aforesaid :-

34. The articles specified in the Fourth Schedule hereto shall be Articles

wholly exempt from these rules.

exempted.

bottles.

35. No person shall export or attempt to export any glass bottles Glass

(except beer bottles or proprietary bottles) unless they are being used bonâ fide for the exportation of some marketable commodity.

of certain

36. No person shall export or attempt to export to Switzerland any Exportation

article specified in the Fifth Schedule hereto unless such articles to article is consigned to the Société Suisse de Surveillance Switzerland. Economique.*

4. The following schedules are added to the said rules so published in the Gazette as aforesaid':

Fourth Schedule.

List of articles wholly exempt:

Fresh cream.

Fresh fish,

Fresh fruit.

Fresh milk.

Fresh vegetables.

Ice.

Live ducks.

[Rule 34.]

Live fish.

Live fowl.

Live game.

Live stock.

* NOTE:---This rule must not be read as authorising the exportation to Switzerland of any article for the time being prohibited to be exported to a destination in Switzerland, or as authorising the exportation of any article whatsoever without a permit or licence.