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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 12, 1920:

(a) in the first place, with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by British nationals (other than British nationals ordinarily resident in the self-governing Dominions, India and Egypt) with regard to their property, rights and interests (including companies and associations in which they are interested) in the territories of the former Austrian Empire, or debts owing to them by Austrian nationals, and with payment of any compensation awarded by the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, or by an arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal in pursuance of paragraph (e) of Article 249 of the Treaty, and with payment of claims growing out of acts committed by the former Austro-Hungarian Government or by any Austrian authorities since the twenty-eight day of July, and before the twelfth day of August, nineteen hundred and fourteen; and

(b) secondly, with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by British nationals (other than British nationals ordinarily resident in the self-governing Dominions, India and Egypt) with regard to their property, rights and interests in the territories of Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey, in so far as those claims are not otherwise satisfied:

Provided that any particular property, rights or interests so charged may at any time be released by the Administrator, acting under the general direction of the Board of Trade, from the charge so created.

(x) With a view to making effective and enforcing such charge as aforesaid-

(a) The Administrator shall have such powers and duties as are herein--

after provided;

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(b) no person shall, without the consent of the Administrator acting under the general direction of the Board of Trade, transfer, part with or otherwise deal in any property, right or interest subject to the charge, and if he does so he shall be liable on summary convic- tion to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both such imprisonment

and fine;

(e) every person owning or having the control or management of any property, right or interest subject to the charge (including where the property, right or interest consists of shares, stocks or other securities issued by a company, municipal authority or other body, or any right or interest therein such company, authority or body) shall, unless particulars thereof have already been furnished to the Custodian in accordance with the Trading with the Enemy Acts, 1914 to 1918, within one month from the date of the making of this Order by notice in writing communicate the fact to the Administrator and shall furnish the Administrator with such particulars in relation thereto as the Administrator may require, and if any person fails to do so or furnishes any false infor- mation he shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds;

(d) where the property charged consists of inscribed or registered stock, shares or other securities, any company, municipal authority or other body by whom the securities were issued or are managed shall on application being made by the Administrator, notwith- standing any regulation or stipulation of the company or other body, and notwithstanding that the Administrator is not in posses- sion of the certificate, scrip or other document of title relating to the shares, stock or securities to which the application relates, enter the Administrator in the books in which the securities are inscribed or registered as the proprietor of the securities subject to the charge, and the Administrator shall have power to sell or otherwise deal with the securities as proprietor of which he is so registered or inscribed;

(e) Where the property charged consists of property transferable on delivery, any person having the possession, control, or management of the property shall, ou being so required by the Administrator

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