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THE CHINA (TREATY OF PEACE) ORDER IN COUNCIL, 1919
and with payment of any compensation awarded by the Mixed
Arbitral Tribunal or by an arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal,
in pursuance of paragraph {>) of Article 2$? pf the Treaty, and
With payment of claims growing out/ o# actfe; comni'itted by the
German Government o,r by German authorities since the 31st
July, 1914, and before the 4th Augdst, 1914.
(6) Secondly, with payment of the amounts due in respect of claims by
British nationals with regard to their property rights and interests,
in the territories of Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey in sa
fai1 as'those claims are not otherwise satlsf&d.
Provided that any particular property rights or interests so charged may at any
time, if the Minister thinks nt, be released from the charge so created.
2. In the application and enforcement of the charge created by this Order the
claims of or debts owing to British nationals resident or..carrying on business in
China shall enjoy priority over the claims of or debts owing to other British
nationals. big
3. With a view to making effective and enforcing’such, charge as aforesaid :—
(a) No person shall, without the consent of .tlm.|CustQ,dian,, tiWMffcr, 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
conyicfiQn, to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to
imprtsonment.for a term not exceeding three m’oliths, or to’both
sucH imprisonment and fine. . V . : 1
(b) Every person owning or having the control or management qf .anygpro.-
perty right or interest subject to the charge (including where the
property right or interest ponsists of shares, stocks, or other
securities issued by a company, municipal autliority, if other body,
or any right or interest therein, such company, authority, or body)
shall, unless particulars' thereof have already beefi furnished to thb-
Custodian in accordance with the Trading with the Enemy Acts,
1914 to 1918, or the Trading :witk the Enemy Consolidation
Regulations, 1918, within one month-from the date when, this
Order comes into operation, by notice in writing communicate the,
fact to the Custodian, and shall furnish the Custodian with such
particulars in relation thereto as the Custodian may-require, and
if any person fails to do s.n he shall,-on summary, conviction, be
liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds.
(c) Where the property charged consists of inscribed, or registered stock,
shares, or other securities, any company, municipal authority,pf
other body by whom the securities were issued or are managed
shall, on application being made by'the Custodian, enter the Cus¬
todian in the books in which the securities are inscribed or
registered as the proprietor of the secutities subject to the charge,
and the Custodian shall, subject to the consent of the Minister,
have powrer to sell or otherwise deal with-the securities as prd-'
prietor of which he is so registered or inscribed.
(d) The Minister may by order vest in the Custodian any property rights-.
and interests subject to the charge, or the right to transfer the
same, and for that-purpose .section 4 of the Trading with the
Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1916, shall apply as if such property
rights and interests were property, belonging to an enemy or
enemy subject.