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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 10, 1939.

EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.

No. 1033.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 38 of 1939.

(ESSENTIAL

COMMODITIES RESERVES).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 16 of the Essential Commodities Reserves Ordinance, 1939, the Governor in Council makes the following regulations--

Essential Commodities Reserves Regulations.

1. Every application for the registration of any person as an importer of a scheduled commodity shall—

(a) be substantially in Form 1 in the Schedule to these regulations and shall contain the particulars required to be set out in that Form; and

(b) be signed by the applicant or by his duly authorized agent.

2. Every person who is an applicant for registration as an importer of a scheduled commodity shall, if he is required so to do by the Controller, produce such documents as may be necessary to prove the correctness of any statement made by that person in his application.

3. Where an application for registration as an importer of a scheduled commodity is made by any person who should in the opinion of the Controller be required, in accordance with the provisions of section 7 of the Essential Commodities Reserves Ordinance, 1939, (hereinafter called "the Ordin- ance") to keep a reserve stock of the scheduled commodity the Controller may refuse to register that person as an importer of that commodity---

(a) if he is satisfied that that person will be unable to maintain a reserve stock of the commodity in accordance with such provisions; or

(b) if he is satisfied that that person is not able to arrange for the storage of the reserve stock to the satisfaction of the Controller.

4. Upon the registration of any person as an importer of a scheduled commodity the Controller shall enter or cause. to be entered in the register of importers of that commodity such particulars as he may deem necessary relating to that person, to his business as an importer and to the registered store, if any, at which reserve stocks of the said commodity will be kept by him.