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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 13, 1919.

Short title.

Date of ter- mination of the present

war.

Date of ter-

LS

HONGKONG.

No. 9 OF 1919.

I assent to this Ordinance.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Officer Administering the Government,

13th June, 1919.

An Ordinance to make provision for determin- ing the date of the termination of the present war, and for purposes connected therewith.

13th June, 1919.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Ordinance, 1919.

2. For the purposes of any provision in any Ordi- nance, Proclamation, or Order issued by the Governor or by the Governor in Council and of any provision in any Act of Parliament, Proclamation, or Order issued by His Majesty the King in Council, extending to this Colony, and, except where the context otherwise requires, of any provision in any contract, deed, or other instru- ment referring, expressly or impliedly, and in what- ever form of words, to the present war or the present hostilities, the present war shall be treated as having continued to, and as having ended on, the date which His Majesty by Order in Council declares under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918, to be the date to be treated as the date of the termination of the present war:

Provided that in the case of any such Ordinance, Pro- clamation, or Order issued by the Governor, conferring powers on any Government Department, or any Public officer, exerciseable during the continuance of the present war, if it appears to the Governor that it is expedient that the powers shall cease before the date so fixed as aforesaid, the Governor in Council may fix some earlier date for the termination of those powers..

3. The date, which is to be treated as the date of the mination of termination of war between His Majesty and any war with any

particular State, shall be such date as His Majesty may particular State.

by Order in Council declare under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Act, 1918.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 12th day of June, 1919.

A. D. BALL,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administer- ing the Government, the 13th day of June, 1919.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Colonial Secretary.