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effect on certain
war.
2. It is hereby declared that where the fulfilment by Declaration any person of any contract which is to be performed as to the within the Colony is interfered with by the necessity on the part of himself or any other person of complying contracts of with any requirement regulation or restriction of the certain Admiralty or the Army Council under the Defence of restrictions the Realm Consolidation Act, 1914, or the Defence of due to the the Realm (Amendment) No. 2, Act, 1915, or any regu- lations made thereunder, or any regulations made under 5 & 6 Goo. 5, the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council made on the 26th day of October, 1896, as amended by the Order of His Majesty in Council made on the 21st day of March, 1916, that necessity is a good defence to any action or proceedings taken within the Colony against that person in respect of the non-fulfilment of the contract so far as it is due to that interference.
c. 8.
5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 37.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this bill is to provide relief against actions for breach of contract where the fulfilment of the contract has been interfered with by executive require- ments or restrictions rendered necessary by the war. The bill applies only to contracts to be performed within the Colony. It is founded on section 1 (2) of the Defence of the Realm (Amendment) No. 2, Act, 1915, 5 & 6 Geo. 5, c. 37.
28th September, 1917.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to regulate Ferries.
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 Ferries Ordi- Short title. nance, 1917.
2.-(1.) In this Ordinance-
(a) "Ferry" means any service, conducted by means of a vessel or vessels propelled by any means except oars and sails, for the conveyance of persons or of persons and things, by water, for payment or reward, between two or more points within the Colony, whether such service be also to any point or points without the Colony or not, and whether the points between which the service is provided be varied from time to time or not, but does not include the hiring of any vessel to one person for a single journey, and does not include the hiring of any vessel to a single pleasure party.
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(b) "Ferry Vessel means any vessel which is
employed for the purpose of a ferry.
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(c) "Illegal Ferry means a ferry which is main- tained in contravention of section 3 of this Ordinance.
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