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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 21, 1916.

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and be in substitution for the Statutory List issued with Our Proclama- tion of the 29th day of February, 1916, as varied and added to by the Orders of Council making variations therein and additions thereto.

3. For the purposes of this Proclamation a person shall be deemed to have traded with a person or body of persons mentioned in the Statutory List if he enters into any transaction or does any act with, to, on behalf of, or for the benefit of, any such 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, and accordingly Our Proclamation relating to Trading with the Enemy, of the ninth day of September, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by any subsequent Proclamation, shall apply with respect to the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List as if for references in such Proclamations to enemies there were substituted references to the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List, and for references to the dates of the said Proclamations, and the outbreak of war, there were substituted references to the date of this Proclamation or in respect of any person or body of persons hereafter added to the Statutory List the date of the Order adding him or them to the Statutory List.

4. The provisions of the Trading with the Enemy Acts, 1914 to 1916, and of the Customs (War Powers) Acts, 1915 and 1916, and all other enact- ments relating to Trading with the Enemy, shall, subject to such excep tions and adaptations as are prescribed by Order in Council of even date herewith or as may be prescribed by any Order in Council hereafter to be issued, apply in respect of the persons and bodies of persons men- tioned in the Statutory List, as if for references in such enactments to trading with the enemy there were substituted references to trading with the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List, and for references to enemies there were substituted references to the persons and bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List, and for references to offences under the Trading with the Enemy Acts, 1914 to 1916, or any of those Acts, there were substituted references to offences under the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Act, 1915.

5. Nothing in this Proclamation shall be taken to prohibit:-

(a) Any person or body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom who is engaged in any non-enemy country in the business of insurance from carrying on in that country such business (other than the business of Marine Insurance or of the insurance against fire or any other risk of goods or merchandise during transit from shipper's or manufacturer's warehouse, until de- posited in warehouse on the termination of the transit, if any part of the transit is by sea), with or through the agency of any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List ;

(b) Any person or body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom who is engaged in working any Railway or other service of Public Utility in any non-enemy country under any Charter, Grant, or Concession made by the Government of, or by any Provincial or Municipal Authority in, any such country from trading with any of the persons or bodies of persons mentioned in the Statutory List, so far only as is necessary to enable the person or body of persons engaged in working such Railway or other service of Public Utility to comply with or fulfil the obligations or conditions of the Charter, Grant, or Concession under which the working of the Railway or other service of Public Utility is carried on; or

(c) Any person or body of persons, incorporated or unincorporated, resident, carrying on business, or being in the United Kingdom from entering into any transaction or doing any act which shall be permitted by Our Licence or by any Licence given