THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 12; 1920. 393
In the event of a local office being established in any part of His Majesty's Dominions or in any Protectorate the provisions relating to the Clearing Office hereinafter coutained shall apply thereto for the purpose of the functions authorized to be performed by a local clearing office under paragraph 1 of the Annex to Section III. of Part X. of the Treaty.
(ii) It shall not be lawful for any person to pay or accept payment of any enemy debt except in cases where recovery thereof in a court of law is allowed as hereinafter provided, otherwise than through or by leave of the Clearing Office (which leave may be granted subject to such oonditions, including conditions as to the payment of fees, as the Clearing Office may think fit to impose), and no person interested in any such debt as debtor or creditor shall have any communications with any other person interested therein as creditor or debtor except through or by leave of the Clearing Office, and if any person contravenes this provision he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he had been guilty of the offence of trading with the enemy, and section one of the Trading with the Enemy Act, 1914, shall apply accordingly.
(iii) It shall not be lawful for any person to take proceedings in any court for the recovery of any enemy debt except in the circumstances provided under para- graphs 16, 23 and 25 of the Annex to the said Section III.
(iv) The Clearing Office shall have power to enforce the payment of any enemy debt against the person by whom the debt is due, together with such interest as is payable under paragraph 22 of the Aunex to the said Section III., and for that purpose shall have all such rights and powers as if they were the creditor; and if the debt has been admitted by the debtor or the debt or amount thereof has been found by arbitration or by the Mixed Arbitral Tri- bunal or by a court of law in manner provided by paragraph 16 of the Annex to the said Section III., the Clearing Office may certify the amount so admitted or found due together with such interest as aforesaid, and on production to the proper officer of the Supreme Court of the part of His Majesty's Domi- nions or the Protectorate in which the debtor resides of such certificate, the certificate shall be registered by that officer and shall from the date of such registration be of the same force and effect, and all proceedings may be taken thereon, as if the certificate were a judgment obtained in that court for the recovery of a debt of the amount specified in the certificato and entered upon the date of such registration, and all reasonable costs and chargos attendant upon the registration of such certificate shall be recoverable in like manner as if they were part of such judgment.
(v) It shall be lawful for the Clearing Office to recover from any porsou by whom a fine is payable under paragraph 10 of the Annex to the said Section III, the amount of such fine.
(vi) If any creditor refuses or fails to give such notice or to furnish such doen- ments or information as are mentioned in paragraph 5 of the Annex to the said Section III. he shall, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds.
(vii) If any person collusively gives notice of or admits any debt which is not due or furnishes any false information with respect to any debt, he shall, on sum- mary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such im- prisonment and fine.
(viii) If His Majesty so agrees with any of the other Allied or Associated Powers, the provisions of this Order, so far as they relate to enemy debts, shall apply to debts due to or from the nationals of that Power resident in any part of His Majesty's Dominions or Protectorates in like manner as they apply to debts due to or from British nationals so resident.
(ix) All property, rights and interests within His Majesty's Dominions or Protec- torates belonging to nationals of the former Austrian Empire at the date when the Treaty came into force (not being property, rights or interests acquired under any general licence issued by or on behalf of His Majesty), and the net proceeds of their sale, liquidation or other dealings therewith, are hereby charged-
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