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No. 40.

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Vol. LXXXV.

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The Hong Kong

Government Gazette Extraordinary

Published by Authority.

MONDAY, AUGUST 28, 1939.

The following Notifications are published,

No. 709

By command,

R. A. C. NORTH,

Colonlal Secretary.

NOTICES.

Hong Kong.

In exercise of the powers conferred by the Emergency Powers (Colonial Defence) Order in Council, 1939, the Governor makes the following regulations:-

Hong Kong registered ships transfer and mortgage regulations.

1. It shall be unlawful, excepting under the authority of the Board of Trade, to transfer or mortgage, or to transfer any mortgage ef, any British ship registered in the Colony or any share in such a British ship; and if any person purports to effect any transfer or mortgage which is unlawful by virtue of this paragraph, then, in addition to the transfer or mortgage being void, he shall be guilty of an offence. against this regulation punishable as provided in regulation 84 published in Notification No. 703 of 26th August, 1939.