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Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Taxation Amendment) Regulation 1912

UNITED KINGDOM

KING'S REGULATION

TO AMEND THE GILBERT AND ELLICE ISLANDS PROTECTORATE (CONSOLIDATION) REGULATION, 1908.

Made by His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner for the Western Pacific in accordance with the provisions of the Pacific Order in Council, 1893.

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In the name of His Majesty, George the Fifth, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India.

Short title.
1. This Regulation may be cited as the Gilbert and Ellice Islands (Taxation Amendment) Regulation, 1912.

Repeals definition of “Protectorate” in Regulation No. III. of 1908 and substitutes definition.
2. The definition of the term “Protectorate” given in the introduction of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate (Consolidation) Regulation, 1908, is hereby repealed and the following definition is substituted therefore:-

“Protectorate” means and includes all the islands or groups of islands from time to time included in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate.

Repeals section 5 of Regulation No. III. of 1908 and substitutes section.
3. Section five of the Gilbert and Ellice Islands Protectorate (Consolidation) Regulation, 1908, is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefore:-

"5.-(1) The owner or master of a vessel employed in trading in the waters of the Protectorate shall obtain a license for that purpose (hereinafter termed a ship’s license) in the form given in Schedule B thereto.

(2) A ship’s license may extend to the whole Protectorate, or to any specified island or islands included therein.

(3) For a ship's license-

(a) extending to the whole Protectorate the sum of one hundred and seventy-five pounds;

(b) extending to the Gilbert and Ellice groups of islands the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds;

(c) extending to the Gilbert group, or Ellice group, of islands the sum of one hundred pounds;

(d) extending to any specified island or islands included in the Protectorate, for every island the sum of fifteen pounds,

shall be paid.

(4) A ship's license shall avail only for the vessel in respect whereof it is issued, but the Resident Commissioner, on proof to his satisfaction that a vessel in respect whereof a ship's license has been issued has been withdrawn from the Protectorate and another vessel has been substituted therefor, and on surrender to him of the license, may issue a license in the form given in Schedule C hereto in respect of the substituted vessel, for which a fee of one pound shall be paid.

Provided that not more than one substituted ship's license for a licensed vessel shall be issued in any one year."

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Published and exhibited in the Public Office of the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific this twelfth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twelve.

By Command,

C. H. HART-DAVIS,
Secretary to His Britannic Majesty's High Commissioner
for the Western Pacific.
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