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Clause 14 provides that no legal proceeding of any kind shall be brought against any liquidator or public officer, except with the permission of the Governor, in respect of any act or omission connected with any winding up under the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinances.

Clause 15 provides for the continuance of the Governor's and the liquidators' powers for such period after the con- clusion of the war as may seem proper to the Governor in Council. The object of the clause is to provide an interval during which the whole position, both here and in other parts of the Empire and in enemy countries, may be con- sidered before the liquidators' control of the estates comes to an end, and it may also be that on the conclusion of the war various questions as to the liabilities of firms which are being wound up will still be unsettled.

Clause 16 repeals a section which will be rendered unnecessary by clause 13 of this bill.

A BILL

INTITULED

J. H. KEMP,

1

Attorney General.

An Ordinance to amend further the Trading

with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914.

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

Ordinances Nos. 25 of

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Trading with Short title the Enemy Amendment Ordinance, 1916, and shall be and construc- construed as

tion. one with the Trading with the Enemy Ordinance, 1914, and with the Trading with the Enemy 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 be cited together as the Trading with the Enemy Ordinances, 1914 to 1916.

2. In this Ordinance-

Interpreta- tion.

'Enemy subject * means a subject of a State for the 5 & 6 Geo. 5, time being at war with His Majesty, and includes a body c. 105, s. 15. corporate constituted according to the laws of such a State.

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 tho Custodiau under this Ordinance or of any 5 & 6 Geo. 5,

c. 105, s. 12. court in which judgment has been recovered against an enemy".

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

against enemy subject, or with a person of whose affairs a liquida- tor has been appointed under the Alien Enemies (Winding interest.

public

up) Ordinance, 1914, is injurious to the public interest, the Governor may by order cancel or determine such contract either unconditionally or upon such conditions as the Governor may think fit, and thereupon such coutract shall be deemed to be cancelled or determined accordingly.

5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 105, s. 2.