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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 20, 1916.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 448.

Order made by the Governor in Council under Sections 3 and 4 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, (Ordinance No. 3 of 1915), on the 12th day of October, 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, the 7th April, the 5th May, the 16th and 23rd June, the 28th July, the 18th and 25th August, the 1st, 22nd, and 29th September, and the 13th October, 1916, respectively, are hereby further amended as follows:-

1. The following rules are added :----

Certificates of Origin and Interest.

of origin and interest.

42. No person shall import any article from any place in Norway, Certificates Sweden, Denmark, Holland or Switzerland unless such article is accompanied or preceded by a certificate of origin and interest relating thereto, and no person shall import any article from any other place (except places in France, French Indo-China, Italy, Russia, Japan, Portugal, Roumania, the United States of America, China, Siam or Hayti) unless such article is accom- panied or preceded by a certificate of interest relating thereto : Provided that the owners, agents, charterers and master of any ship on which any article is imported without such certificate as may be required under this Rule, if they, or he as the case may be, have no interest in the said article except as the car- riers thereof, shall not be deemed to have imported the said article unless they or he shall have discharged the said article. 43. The Superintendent of Imports and Exports may allow any article Warehousing

imported without such certificate as may be required under Rule 42 to be deposited in such place as he shall approve, and article. upon the said article being so deposited the owners and agents of the said place shall hold the said article and shall part with or dispose of it only as the Superintendent of Imports and Exports shall direct.

of un-

certificated

44. Such certificates shall be signed by some British Consular Autho- Form of

rity at the place of shipment or origin and shall be in the form certificate of

interest and in the Sixth Schedule to the Rules.

origin.

uncertifi-

45. The Superintendent of Imports and Exports may allow any article Conditional imported without such certificate as may be required under Rule delivery of 42 to be delivered to the consignee upon such conditions as to cated article. bond or cash deposit or otherwise as he shall determine.

46. Rule 42 shall not apply to any article shipped for the Colony of Suspending

Hongkong before the 1st October, 1916.

Exportation to Sweden.

clause.

47. No person shall export to Sweden any article except the follow- Exportation

ing:

1. Printed matter of all descriptions.

2. Empty receptacles returned to Sweden.

3. Worn clothing and other personal effects.

4. Live animals other than animals ordinarily used for

human food.

to Sweden.

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