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A BILL
[No. 10:—13.6.27.—1.]
INTITLED
An Ordinance to protect the revenue of the
Colony.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public short title. Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927.
2. If the Governor approves of the introduction Power to into the Legislative Council of a bill or resolution impose or
alter duties, whereby any duty, tax, fee, rate, or other item of
etc., in the revenue would be imposed or altered if such bill or manner set resolution were to become law, it shall be lawful for forth in a bili the Governor to make an order giving the full force or resolution approved for und effect of law to all the provisions of such bill or introduction resolution so long as such order remains in force.
into the Legislative Council.
8. If any such order is made. references in the bill Meaning of or resolution in respect of which the order is made to certain the commencement or coming into operation of such references. bill or resolution shall, so long as sucli order remains in force, be construed as references to the time of coming into force of such order.
order.
4.-(1) Every order made under this Ordinance Coming into shall come into force immediately upon the signing force and thereof by the Governor, unless some other time be duration of specified in the order for the coming into force thereof, in which case the order shall come into force at the time so
specified.
(2) Every such order shall expire and cease to be in force-
(4) upon the notification in the Gazette of the rejection by the Legislative Council of the bill or resolution in respect of which the order was made, or
(4) upon the notification in the Gazette of the
withdrawal of the bill or resolution, or
(c) upon the bill or resolution, with or without modification, becoming law in the ordinary manner, or
(d) upon the expiration of four months from the day on which the order came into force,
whichever event shall first happen.
(3) Where it is provided in this section that an order made under this Ordinance shall expire and cease to be in fores upon the notification in the Gazette of any act, such order shall expire and cease to be in force on the day which purports to be the date of the Gazette in which the notification appears, and imme- diately before midnight on that day.