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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 16,

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 167.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 32 of 1915. (IMPORTATION AND EXPORTATION).

1940.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915, the Governor in Council makes the following Order :-

1. Goods consigned from any country specified in the First Schedule hereto are prohibited to be imported into the Colony unless at the time of the importation thereof there is produced to the Superintendent of Imports and Exports a certificate of origin and interest relating to those goods:

Provided that this prohibition shall not apply

(i) to goods of a description specified in the Second Schedule hereto;

(ii) to any particular consignment of goods in respect of which the Superintendent of Imports and Exports authorizes delivery thereof upon security being given in such form as the Superintendent of Imports and Exports may require for the production as aforesaid within such time as the Superin- teudent of Imports and Exports may prescribe of a certificate of origin and interest.

2. In this Order-

"Certificate of Origin and Interest means a Certificate in the form specified in the Third Schedule hereto signed by a British Consular Officer.

3. Nothing in this Order shall be taken to be an authority for doing any act, the doing of which would except under such an authority constitute an offence of trading with the enemy.

4. This Order may be cited as the Import (Certificates of Origin and Interest) Order, 1940, and shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1940.

1st February, 1940.

T. MEGARRY,

Clerk of Councils.