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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 30, 1917.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 526.---His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. EWART BENJAMIN GEORGE SOUTER to the temporary rank of Lieu- tenant in the Hongkong Defence Corps, with effect from the 14th November, 1917.

29th November, 1917.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 527.-The following notification of the Board of Trade is published for general information.

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THEREAS a Licence was granted by the Board of Trade, on 7th December, 1915, permitting, in certain circumstances, the payment of fees and agents' charges and expenses in respect of patents, trade marks and designs, payable in an enemy coun- try or on behalf of an enemy:

And whereas it has been deemed desirable to amend the terms of the said Licence :

Now, therefore, the Board, acting on behalf of His Majesty, and in pursuance of all powers thereunto them enabling, do hereby amend the said Licence, dated 7th December, 1915, as follows, that is to say :-

The said Licence shall have effect subject to the following amendments:---

(a) The words "person" or "persons" respectively wherever they occur in clauses 1 and 2 thereof shall mean a person or persons being of British, Allied or Neutral nationality :

(6) In clauses 1 (6) and 2 (6) of the said Licence there shall be added imme- diately after the words "His Majesty's Dominions wherever they occur, the words "or of Allied territory not in hostile occupation":

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 only be made by the person making the same, out of monies—

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

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

and subject to the provisions of the 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 United Kingdom 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 monies fees payable in the United Kingdom for obtaining the renewal of such patent or for obtaining the renewal of the registration of such design, or from paying agents in the United Kingdom (including themselves) their charges and expenses (if any) in relation to such matters.

Dated this 5th day of September, 1917.

H. LLEWELLYN SMITH,

Secretary to the Board of Trade.

NOTE. The above notification appeared in the London Gazette of the 7th September, 1917. For a list of the various licences which have been issued in the United Kingdom and in this Colony see the note to Proclamation No. 12 in this issue of the Hongkong Gazette.