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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1920.

APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 488. The Honourable Mr. WILLIAM CHATHAM, C.M.G., returned to the Colony on the 22nd September, 1920, and resumed duty as Director of Public Works.

24th September, 1920.

NOTICES.

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 489. The following Order of His Majesty the King in Council, which appeared in the London Gazette of the 11th June, 1920, is published for general informa- tion.

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 11TH DAY OF JUNE, 1920.

PRESENT,

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS on the 20th day of January, 1914, an International Convention for the

Safety of Life at Sea, and for purposes incidental thereto, was duly entered into by His Majesty and the other Signatory Powers more especially referred to and set out in the said Convention :

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And whereas a Statute 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 50, intituled an Act to make such amend- ments of the Law relating to Merchant Shipping as are necessary or expedient to give effect to an International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea" (being the Convention above referred to) was passed on the 10th day of August, 1914, the short title of which is "The Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914 "

And whereas by Section 29, Sub-section 5, of the said Act it was provided as follows:

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This Act shall come into operation on the 1st day of July, 1915:

"Provided that His Majesty may, by Order in Council, from time to time post- pone the coming into operation of this Act for such period, not exceeding on any occasion of postponement one year, as may be specified in the Order”;

And whereas by divers Orders in Council the coming into operation of the said Act has been from time to time postponed, and now stands postponed, by virtue of an Order in Council of the 9th day of December, 1919, until the 1st day of July, 1920:

And whereas His Majesty deems it expedient that the provisions of the said Act. should be further postponed:

Now, therefore, His Majesty, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, in pur- suance of the powers vested in Him by the above-recited provision, and of all other powers Him thereunto enabling, doth order, and it is hereby ordered, that the provisions of the Merchant Shipping (Convention) Act, 1914, shall be postponed from coming into operation until the 1st day of January, 1921.

ALMERIC FITZROY.