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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 8тп APRIL, 1839.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 203.

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The following Bills, which it is proposed to introduce shortly into the Legislative Council, are published for general information.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office. Hongkong, 8th April, 1899.

J. H. STEWART LOCKHART, Colonial Secretary.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to exempt the territories comprised in the recent extension of the Colony of Hong- kong from the operation of certain laws, and for other purposes.

WHEREAS, by a Convention dated the 9th day of June, Preamble. 1898, between Her Majesty Queen VICTORIA, and His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China, it was provided that the limits of British territory in the regions adjacent to the Colony of Hongkong should be enlarged under lease to Her said Majesty in the manner described in the said Convention:

And whereas, by an Order of Her Majesty in Council, dated the 20th day of October, 1898, it was ordered that the territorios within the limits and for the term described in the said Convention should be, and the same were thereby declared to be part and parcel of Her Majesty's Colony of Hongkong in like manner and for all intents and purposes as if they had originally formed part of the said Colony; and whereas it was further ordered that it should be com- petent for the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council of the said Colony, to make laws for the peace, order, and good gov- ernment of the said territories as part of the said Colony; and whereas it was further ordered that from a date to be fixed by proclamation of the Governor of Hongkong all laws and Ordinances which should at such date be in force in the said Colony should take effect in the said territories and should remain in force therein until the same should have been altered or repealed by Her said Majesty or by the Governor of Hongkong by and with the advice or consent of the Legislative Council:

And whereas the date so fixed by the proclamation of the Governor in pursuance of the said Order was the seven- teenth day of April, 1899, and the said laws and Ordi- 'nances accordingly then so took effect and are now in force:

And whereas it is expedient to exempt the said territories from the operation of certain of the said Ordinances or parts thereof and to prevent doubts as to the effect of the exten- sion of the Colony upon existing grants and contracts:

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 for all purposes as the Short title. Hongkong Extension Exemption Ordinance, 1899.

2. In this Ordinance the expression “New Territories” Interpreta- means the additional territories acquired under the Conven- tion. tion of the 9th day of June, 1898, which is in the preamble to this Ordinance referred to.

the new

3. The Ordinances specified in the Schedule to this Or- Certain Or- dinance shall, to the extent set forth in the third column of dinances not such Schedule, respectively, not apply to the new territories to apply to unless and until the Governor shall by Order-in-Council territory. notified in the Gazette otherwise direct. Any Rules, Regn- lations, Bye-laws, Orders-in-Council, Notifications or Pro- clamations made under any Ordinances or parts of Ordi- nances, which do not for the time being apply to the new territories, shall not apply to the new territories, unless and until the Governor shall by Order-in-Council notified in the Gazette otherwise direct.