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Application

of certain other enact- ments.

Meaning of trading.

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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- portation Ordinance, 1915, and all other enactments relating to trading with the enemy, shall subject to such excep 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 deemed to have traded with a person or body of persous to whom a Proclamation or Order issued under this Ordinance applies, if he enters 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.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this bill is to apply in Hongkong the provisions of the Trading with the Enemy (Extension of Powers) Act, 1915, which gives His Majesty power to prohibit trading with persons and bodies of persons not resident or carrying on business in enemy territory or in territory in the occupation of the enemy (other than per- sons or bodies of persons residing or carrying on business solely within His Majesty's dominions) whenever by reason of the enemy nationality or enemy association of such persons or bodies of persons it appears to His Majesty expedient to do so.

J. H. KEMP,

A

BILL

Attorney General.

Short title.

Returns to

INTITULED

An Ordinance to provide for the registration

of certain persons.

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 Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1916.

2.-(1.) Every person included in the First Schedule be furnished. hereto who is in the Colony at the commencement of this First

Ordinance shall within one month of such commencement, Schedule.

unless such person shall have departed from the Colony within the said period of one month, furnish to the Captain Superintendent of Police a return of the particulars speci- fied in the Second Schedule bereto.

Second Schedule.

(2.) Every person included in the First Schedule hereto who shall hereafter arrive in the Colony shall within two weeks of such arrival, unless such person shall have