56466-1918-PROCLAMATION — Page 1

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1918.

“(4) Nothing in this regulation shall----

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(a) affect the assumption or use, or continued assumption or use, of

any name in pursuance of a Royal Licence; or

(b) affect the continuance of the use, until the decision of the Secretary of State has been given, of a name in respect of which an application for exemption is made before the nineteenth day of August, nineteen hundred and eighteen;

or

(c) prevent the assumption or use by a married woman of her

husband's name."

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Extract from the London Gazette of the 6th August, 1918, No. 30831.

3. Regulation 14

Defence of the Realm Regulations.

Order in Council dated 2nd August, 1918.

shall be amended by the insertion of the following words at the end of subsection (4) thereof :-

or

(d) apply to any woman who, having been born a British subject but having become an alien by marriage, has been granted a certificate of naturalisation, or has before the tenth day of August, nineteen hundred and eighteen, been granted an exemption from the provi- sions of the Aliens Restriction Order relating to change of name by enemy aliens."

No. 11.

PROCLAMATIONS.

[L.S.]

CLAUD SEVERN,

Officer Administering the Government.

By His Excellency CLAUD SEVERN, Companion of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies :

Whereas by section 189 of the Army Act it is enacted that where the Governor of a Colony in which any of His Majesty's forces are serving declares at any time or times that by reason of the imminence of active service or of the recent existence of active service it is necessary for the public service that the forces in the Colony should be temporarily subject to the said Act as if they were on active service then on the publica- tion in general orders of any such declaration the forces to which the declaration applies shall be deemed to be on active service for the period mentioned in the declaration so that the period mentioned in any one declaration do not exceed three months from the date thereof :

And Whereas by declaration made on the 5th day of August 1914 it was declared by Proclamation published in the Government Gazette Extraordinary dated the 5th day of August 1914 to be necessary for the public service that His Majesty's forces in the Colony be subject to the said Act for the period of three months from the date thereof as if they were on active service :