THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6TH AUGUST, 1887.
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any seal required by any such Act or Law; and in case any difficulty occurs in the application of any such Act or Law, it shall be lawful for a Secretary of State to direct by, and to whom, and in what manner anything to be done under such Act or Law is to be done, and such Act or Law shall in its application to matters arising within the limits of this Order be construed accordingly.
33. All fines, forfeitures, penalties, and fees received under this Order shall be accounted for and. paid as a Secretary of State, with the concurrence of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, from time to time directs.
34. Sums of money, fines, forfeitures, penalties, or fees payable under this Order shall be calcu- lated and paid in English money, or its equivalent in local currency or produce, or bills of exchange approved by the Court.
35. Judicial notice shall be taken of this Order, and of the commencement thereof, and of the appointment of Consuls, and of the constitution and limits of the Consular Courts and districts, and of Consular seals and signatures, and of any Rules or Regulations made or in force under this Order, and no proof shall be required of any of such matters.
The provisions of The Evidence Act, 1851" (14 & 15 Vict.. cap. 99), sections 7 and 11, relating to the proof of judicial and other documents, shall extend and be applied for all purposes as if the Courts, districts, and places to which this Order applies were in a British Colony.
36. Printed copies of this Order, and of any Rules or Regulations made or in force under this Order, shall be kept for sale at the Consular Courts, at reasonable prices fixed by the Consuls, subject to any direction of a Secretary of State.
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37. When this Order has been published in the "London Gazette," it shall commence and have effect on and from the first day of the calendar month next but one after the month in which it is so published, or on such later day as a Secretary of State, by a notice published in the "London Gazette at the time of or subsequently to the publication of this Order, appoints; but a Secretary of State may from time to time, by order directed to any Consular Court, suspend the commencement of the whole or any part of this Order in relation to the whole or any part of any district or districts assigned to such Court.
A Secretary of State shall from time to time give directions for the publication and exhibition of this Order at such places and offices. and in such manner, and for such time or times as he thinks proper for giving due publicity thereto in every distret in which it is to be in force.
38. The Order in Council dated the 21st February, 1872, which relates to certain parts of West Africa therein mentioned, and which is in this Order referred to as the West Africa Order in Council, 1872, is wholly repealed as from the date of the commencement of this Order; and so much of any Rules or Regulations made under the said Order of 1872 as prescribes or defines any penalty or punishment for any contravention thereof is repealed as from the same date: provided as follows:-
(1.) In case the commencement of this Order is suspended by a Secretary of State in relation to any district or place to which the said Order of 1872 applies, these repeals shall not take effect as regards that district or place during such suspension..
(2.) In any case, these repeals shall not affect the past operation of the said Order of 1872, or of any such Rules or Regulations, or any right or liability accrued thereunder, or the validity or invalidity of anything done or suffered, or the execution of any judgment given or order made before such repeals take effect.
(3.) Proceedings pending at the time of such repeal may be continued and completed, and all things in relation thereto or consequent thereon may be done either under the repealed provisions.or under this Order, but so that no greater punishment shall be inflicted than was authorized by the repealed provisions.
39. In this Order, unless the subject or context otherwise requires--
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Secretary of State" means one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Treaty includes any existing or future Treaty, Convention, or Agreement between Her Majesty and any African or non-African Power. or any tribe, people, Chief, or King, and any Regulation appended to any such Treaty, Convention, or Agreement.
"Person" includes a corporation or association of persons.
"Month" means calendar month,
The singular includes the plural, and the masculine the feminine.
The terms "crime" and "criminal" include offences against this Order.
"Imprisonment" includes penal servitude.
40. This Order may be cited as the "West Africa Order. 1885.”
And the Right Honourable the Earl Granville, and the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, two of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury, and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty are to give the necessary directions herein as to them may respectively appertain.
C. L. PEEL.
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