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of the commission of the offence, he shall not be liable
to be prosecuted for that offence by virtue of the new
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time limit being introduced.
1.3.
Section 33 of the principal Ordinance provides
that a person convicted of an offence under Part II shall
be disqualified for a period of 7 years from being a
member of inter alial a public body specified in the
Schedule. The majority of the bodies listed in the
Schedule are corporations and, in that context, member-
ship means owning shares. Since this was not the
intention when the Ordinance was enacted, clause 14
amends section 33 by removing the disqualification in
respect of membership of public bodies listed in the
Schedule. However, the disqualification will continue to
apply in respect of membership of the Executive,
Legislative and Urban Councils and other public bodies.
Clause 15 adds a new section,33A, to the
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principal Ordinance which will empower a court to
prohibit the employment of a person convicted of an
offence under Part II. The court will only be able to
impose such a prohibition if it considers it to be in
the public interest to do so. The terms of the
prohibition, which cannot exceed 7 years, will be left
to the discretion of the court, which can prohibit
employment in respect either of a particular business or
of a class of business and can also prohibit employment
as a director, partner, manager or similar capacity.
Where an order has been made, the person to whom the
order applies can apply to the court to have it varied
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