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2 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 4, 1929.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 1-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has been pleased to appoint Mr. Wong KwoNG TIN to be a Member of the Sanitary Board for a further term of three years, with effect from the 12th January, 1929.

3rd January, 1929.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S Department.

No. 2. The following Order of His Majesty in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 23rd November, 1928, is published for general information.

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The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGIIAM PALACE,

THE 20TH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1928.

PRESENT:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

HEREAS on the 20th day of January, 1914, an International Convention for the safety of Life at Sea, and for purposes incidental thereto, was duly entered into by His Majesty and the other Signatory Powers more especially referred to and set out in the said Convention:

And whereas a Statute 4 & 5 Geo. V. c. 50, intituled "An Act to make such amend- ments of the law relating to Merchant Shipping as are necessary or expedient to give effect to an International Convention for the safety of Life at Sea" (being the Conven- tion above referred to) was passed on the 10th day of August, 1914, the short title of which is "The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914":

And whereas by Section 29, Sub-Section 5, of the said Act it was provided as follows:-

"This Act shall come into operation on the I1st day of July, 1915: “Provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council from time to time, post- pone the coming into operation of this Act for such period, not exceeding on any occasion of postponement one year, as may be specified in the Order":

And whereas by divers Orders in Council the coming into operation of the said Act has been from time to time postponed, and now stands postponed, by virtue of an Order in Council of the 20th day of December, 1927, until the 1st day of January, 1929 :

And whereas His Majesty deems it expedient that the provisions of the said Act should be further postponed:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, in pursu- ance of the powers vested in Him by the above-recited provision and all other powers Him thereunto enabling, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914, shall be postponed from coming into opera- tion until the 1st day of January, 1930.

M. P. A. HANKEY.