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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 30, 1916.

HONGKONG.

No. 8 or 1916.

LS

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

30th June, 1916.

An Ordinance to amend further the Trading

with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914.

[30th June, 1916.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trading with Short title the Enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1916, and shall be and construc- construed as one with the Trading with the Enemy tion. Ordinance, 1914, and with the Trading with the Euemy Ordinances Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and with the Trading with 1914, and 12, the Enemy Second Amendment Ordinance, 1915, and with 22, and 28 the Trading with the Enemy Third Amendment Or- of 1915. dinance, 1915, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may he citel together as the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances. 1914 to 1916.

2. In this Ordinance--

'Enemy subject' means a subject of a State for the time being at war with His Majesty, and includes a body corporate constituted according to the laws of such a State.

Interpreta- tion.

5 & 6 Geo. 5, e. 105, s. 15.

3. Sub-section (2) of section 7 of the Trading with the Amendment Enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1915, is amended by of Ordinance

No. 22 of substituting the word "thereof" for the words by

1915, s. 7. "whose order any property belonging to an enemy was "vested in the Custodian under this Ordinance or of any 5 & 6 Gen. 5, court in which judgment has been recovered against . 105, s. 12. "an enemy".

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interest.

4. Where it appears to the Governor that a contract Provision as entered into before or during the war with an enemy or to contracts enemy subject, or with a person of whose affairs a liquida- against tor has been appointed under the Alien Enemies (Winding public up) Ordinance, 1914, is injurious to the public interest, the Governor may by order cancel or determine such contract 5 & 6 Geo. 5, either unconditionally or upon such conditions as the c. 105, s. 2. Governor may think fit, and thereupon such contract shall be deemed to be cancelled or determined accordingly.

and

5. The power of the Governor to appoint inspectors and Extension supervisors under the Trading with the Enemy Amend- of powers ment Ordinance, 1915, and the Trading with the Enemy to appoint Third Amendment Ordinance, 1915, shäll include a power inspectors to appoint an inspector or supervisor of the business carried supervisors. on by any person, firm, or company, in the Colony for the purpose of ascertaining whether the business is carried on 5 & 6 Geo. 5, for the benefit of or under the control of enemy subjects, c. 105, s. 3. or for the purpose of ascertaining the relations existing, or which before the war existed, between such person, firm, or company, or of any members of that firm or com- pany, and any such subject.

6.—(1.) The Governor, in any case where it appears to Power of him to be expedient to do so, may by order vest in the Governor to Custodian under the Trading with the Enemy Second yest enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1915, any property, movable or property in

Custodian.

immovable (including any rights whether legal or equitable, in or arising out of property, movable or immovable), 5 & 6 Geo. 5,

c. 105, s. 4. belonging to or held or managed for and on behalf of an enemy or enemy subject, or the right to transfer that pro-

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