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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1940.

No. 1082.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

With reference to Government Notification 708 published in the Gazette Extraordinary of 26th August, 1939, and to Government Notification 691 published in the Gazette of 21st June, 1940, the following Order of IEs Majesty in Council is published for general information.

27th September, 1940.

N. L. SMITH,

Colonial Secretary.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 7TH DAY OF JUNE, 1940

PRESENT

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY

Lord President.

Lord Moyne.

Lord Alness.

Captain Crookshank. Mr. Bracken.

Sir Walter Citrine.

Mr. Cross.

Mr. Dalton,

Sir Charles Edwards.

Sir Percy Harris.

Sir Robert Vansittart.

WHEREAS His Majesty has been pleased by the Ener- gency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, to direct that certain provisions of the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1939 (hereinafter referred to as "the prin- cipal Act), should extend to the territories mentioned in the Second Schedule to that Order:

AND WHEREAS the powers exercisable under the principal Act have been extended by the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1940:

NOW, THEREFORE, His Majesty, in pursuance of sub- section (1) of section four and of sub-section (3) of section eight of the principal Act, and of all other powers enabling Him in that behalf, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as

follows:-

1. The provisions of the principal Act which by the Order in Council hereinbefore recited were extended to the territories mentioned in the Second Schedule to that Order subject to the adaptations and modifications contained in the First Schedule thereto shall apply to these territories subject also to the further modification that the said provisions shall have effect in those territories as amended by the Emergency Powers (Defence) Act, 1940; and the said Order in Council shall be construed accordingly.

2. This Order may be cited as the Emergency Powers (Celonial Defence) (Aniendment) Order in Council, 1940.

Rupert B. Howorth.