66848-1920-Treaty-of-Peace-Bulgaria-Order-1920 — Page 5

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 5, 1920. 371

(xviii) Rules made during the war by any recognised Exchange or Commercial Association providing for the closure of contracts entered into before the war by an enemy and any action taken thereunder are hereby confirmed subject to the provisoes contained in paragraph 4 (a) of the Annex to Section V. of Part IX. of the Treaty.

(xix) There shall be imposed on rights of industrial, literary or artistic property (with the exception of trade marks) acquired before or during the war, or which may be acquired hereafter, by or on behalf of Bulgarian nationals, such limitations, conditions or restrictions as the Board of Trade may prescribe for the purpose, in the manner, in the circumstances, and subject to the limi- tations contained in Article 190 of the Treaty, and any transfer in whole or in part or other dealing with any rights so acquired as aforesaid effected since the first day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall if and so far as it is inconsistent with any limitations, conditions or restrictions so imposed be void and of no effect.

(xx) So far as may be necessary for the purpose of Article 191 of the Treaty, the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Temporary Rules) Act, 1914 (except paragraph (b) of Section 1 of the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks (Tem- porary Rules) (Amendment) Act, 1914), shall in relation to Bulgarian nationals continue in force, and shall be deemed as from the date when the Treaty came into force to have continued in force, as if references therein to subjects of a State at war with His Majesty included references to Bulgarian nationals. (xxi) The duly qualified tribunal for the purposes of Article 193 of the Treaty

shall be the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs and Trade Marks.

2. For the purposes of the foregoing provisions of this Order-

The expression "nationals' in relation to any State includes the Sovereign or former Sovereign and the subjects or citizens of that State any company or corpora- tion incorporated therein according to the law of that State and in the case of a Protecto- rate the natives thereof :

The Interpretation Act, 1889, applies for the interpretation of this Order in like. manner as it applies for the interpretation of an Act of Parliament, and as if this Order were made an Act of Parliament.

3. This Order shall apply to the whole of His Majesty's Dominions and Protectorates, except India and Egypt and the self-governing Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia (which for this purpose shall be deemed to include Papua and Norfolk Island), the Union of South Africa, the Dominion of New Zealand and Newfoundland, but in its application to the parts of His Majesty's Dominions. outside the United Kingdom and to British Protectorates shall be subject to such modifi- cations as may be made by the legislatures of those parts or those Protectorates for adapting to the circunstances thereof the provisions of this Order.

1. This Order shall be deemed to have come into operation as from the date when the Treaty of Peace came into force, that is to say, the Ninth day of August, nineteen hundred and twenty.

5. This Order may be cited as the Treaty of Peace (Bulgaria) Order, 1920.

Almeric FitzRoy.

SCHEDULE,

SECTION III. DEBTS.

ARTICLE 176.

(4) (d) Debts shall be paid or credited in the currency of such one of the Allied and Associated Powers, their colonies or protectorates, or the British Dominions or India, as may be concerned. If the debts are payable in some other currency they shall be paid or credited in the currency of the country concerned, whether an Allied or Associa- ted Power, Colony, Protectorate, British Dominion or India, at the pre-war rate of exchange.

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