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Memorandum.
This Bill is substituted for Ordinance No. 29 of 1909 which was considered too extensive and was disallowed at home.
Its object is to vest in the Governor certain powers and duties which it is considered would be more advantageously exercised and performed by him alone than by the Governor-in-Council in whom they are now rested.
W. REES DAVIES
Attorney General,
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Young Persons
Ordinance, 1909.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Young Persons Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1910, and shall be read and and construed as one with the Young Persons Ordinauce, 1909, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance.
construction,
2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by inserting after the word " person in the of section 2 second line thereof the words "who in the opinion of the of the Court is ".
Principal Ordinance.
Memorandum.
This Ordinance vests in the Court the discretion of determining the age of an offender under The Young Persons Ordinance, 1909. Difficulty is frequently expo- rienced in proving the age of an offender,
W. REES DAVIES, Attorney General.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Law of Copyright.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Copyright Short title. Ordinance, 1910.
2. There shall be kept in such place and by such officer Copyright as the Governor with the advice of the Executive Council register to
be kept. may by notification in the Gazette from time to time direct a book or books entitled the Copyright Register wherein may be registered the proprietorship in the copyright of books and assignments thereof and in dramatic and musical pieces whether in manuscript or otherwise and licences affecting such copyright.
3. The several enactments contained in the Act of Application the Imperial Parliament 5 and 6 Vict. c. 45, entitled of certain "The Copyright Act 1842", with relation to keeping the provisions of
the Copy- register book thereby required and the inspection thereof, right Act the searches therein, and the delivery of certified and 1842 to the stamped copies thereof, the reception of such copies in Copyright evidence, the making of false entries in the said book, and Register. the production in evidence of papers falsely purporting to be copies of entries in the said book, the application to the