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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 18, 1940.

1051

No. 805.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT,

In exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Coinneil, 1989, the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1940, and all other powers enabling him in that behalf. His Excellency the Officer Administering the Govern- ment rescinds paragraph (1) of regulation 55 of the Defence Regulations, 1940, published in the Gazette Extraordinary of 25th June, 1940, as Government Notification No. 709, and substitutes the following paragraph therefor--

55.---(1) Subject as hereinafter provided, the Governor, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient so to do in the interests of public safety, defence or the efficient prose- cution of the war, or for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the community, may by order provide for the requisitioning of—

(a) any chattel in the Colony (including any vessel or aircraft and anything on board a vessel or aircraft), and

(b) any ship or aircraft registered in this Colony or any- thing on board such ship or aircraft, wherever the ship or aircraft may be:

and may give such directions as appear to him to be necessary or expedient in connexion with the requisition:

Provided that this regulation shall not authorize the requisitioning of anything on board a United Kingdom or Dominion ship or aircraft.

Published by His Excelleney's Command.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonial Secretary.

17th July, 1940.