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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 28, 1916.

[28th April, 1916.]

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 Trading with Short title. the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Ordinance, 1916.

2. The Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1915, the Mode of cita- Trading with the Enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1915, tion of the the Trading with the Enemy Second Amendment Ordi- Trading with nance, 1915, and the Trading with the Enemy Third the Enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1915, may be cited together as the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances, 1914-1915,

Ordinances.

Ordinances Nos. 25 of

1914, 12 of

1915, 22 of 1915, and 28 of 1915.

nationality or association.

5 and 6 Geo. 5, c. 98.

3.-(1.) The Governor in Council may by Proclamation Power to prohibit all persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or un- prohibit incorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the trading with Colony of Hongkong from trading with any persons or persons of bodies of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, not enemy resident or carrying on business in enemy territory or in territory in the occupation of the enemy (other than per- sons, incorporated or unincorporated, residing or carrying on business solely within His Majesty's Dominious) wherever by reason of the enemy nationality or enemy association of such persons or bodies of persons, incorporated or unincor- porated, it appears to the Governor in Council expedient. so to do, and if any person acts in contravention of any such Proclamation he shall be guilty of a misdemeanour triable and punishable in like manner as the offence of trading with the enemy.

(2.) Any list of persons and bodies of persons, incor- porated or unincorporated, with whom such trading is prohibited by a Proclamation made under this Ordinance may be varied or added to by an Order made by the Governor in Council.

4. The provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances, 1914-1915, and of the Importation and Ex- of certain

Application portation Ordinance, 1915, and all other enactments relating other enact- to trading with the enemy, shall subject to such excep- ments. tions and adaptations as may be prescribed by Order made by the Governor in Council, apply in respect of such per- sons and bodies of persons as aforesaid as if for references therein to trading with the enemy there were substituted references to trading with such persons and bodies of persons as aforesaid, and for references to enemies there were substituted references to such persons and bodies of persons as aforesaid, and for references to offences under the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances, 1914-1915, or any of those Ordinances, there were substituted references to offences under this Ordinance.

5. For the purposes of this Ordinance a person shall be Meaning of deemed to have traded with a person or body of persons to trading. whom a Proclamatiou or Order issued under this Ordinance applies, if he euters into any transaction or does any act with, to, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, such a person or body of persons which if entered into or done with, to, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, an enemy would be trading with the enemy.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 27th day of April, 1916.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.

Asseuted to by His Excellency the Governor, the 28th day of April, 1916.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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