51496-1917-PROCLAMATION — Page 2

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 30, 1917.

673

The following provisos shall be added, viz. :--

Provided always that as regards payments on behalf of an enemy under clause 2 of the said licence as amended hereby the same may be made by the person making the same only out of moneys-

(a) remitted by or on behalf of such enemy, or

(b) held for or on account of such enemy,

and subject to the provisions of next paragraph hereof nothing in the said licence or herein shall permit any payments to be made on behalf of an enemy by way of gift or by way of advancement or loan to or on account of such enemy:

Provided also that nothing herein contained shall prevent persons of British, Allied or Neutral nationality residing, carrying on business or being in the Colony of Hong- kong who have an interest in or under a patent or design belonging in whole or in part to an enemy from paying out of their own moneys fees payable in the Colony of Hong- kong for obtaining the renewal of such patent or for obtaining the renewal of the_regis- tration of such design, or from paying agents in the Colony of Hongkong (including themselves) their charges and expenses (if any) in relation to such matters.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 30th day of November 1917.

By Command,

GOD SAVE THE KING.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary.

NOTE. The following is a list of the various licences which have been issued in the United Kingdom and in this Colony permitting the payment of fees and agents' charges and expenses in respect of patents, trade marks and designs, payable in an enemy country or on behalf of an enemy :-

No.

Date of United Kingdom Proclamation.

Date of London Gazette.

Date of reprint in Hongkong Gazette.

Date of Hongkong Proclamation.

1.

23 Sept., 1914.

26 Sept., 1914.

11 Dec.,

1914.

2.

4 Nov., 1914.

6 Nov., 1914.

3.

7 Dec., 1915.

14 Dec., 1915.

4.

5 Sept., 1917.

7 Sept., 1917.

5 Feb., 1915.

11 Feb., 1916.

30 Nov., 1917.

3 Feb., 1915.

11 Feb., 1916.

30 Nov., 1917.

No. 524.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL, No. 15.

THURSDAY, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1917.

Remarks.

Applied to all H.M.'s Dominions. Revoked,

Revoked.

Principal licence.

Amending.

PRESENT:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT

(Mr. CLAUD SEVERN, C.M.G.).

His Excellency the General Officer Commanding the Troops, (Major-General FRANCIS

VENTRIS).