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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to further amend the Law relating
to Dangerous Goods.
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 Dangerous Short title Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1910, and it shall be and read and construed as one with the Dangerous Goods construction. Ordinance, 1878, (hereinafter called “the Principal Ordin- ance"), as amended by the Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1902.
2. Section 9 of the Principal Ordinner is hereby Amends amended as follows:-
section of the Principal In sub-section (2) by the insertion of the word Olinance.
"conveying " after the word "sending" in the
fourth line thereof.
3. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Aments amended as follows :--
section 10 of the Principal
(a.) Sub-section (1) is repealed and there shall Ordinance.
be substituted therefor the following sub-
section :--
(1.) Save as hereinafter mentioned, no person shall have in his possession, custody or power or in the possession, custody or power of any servant or agent of his, dangerous goods to which this Ordinance applies except in pursuance of a licence granted by the Captain Superintendent of Police or in pursuance of a permi issued in accordance with any rules or regulations made under section 6 of this Ordinance."
(6.) Sub-section (3) is amended as follows:-after the word Colony" in line 4 there shall be inserted the words "the keeping of books in regard to the possession and use of dangerous goods ".
e.) Sub-section 5 is repealed and there shall be substituted therefor the following sub- Section :-
(5.) If any person has dangerous goods to
which this Ordinance applies in his possession, custody or power or in the possession, enstody or power of any servant or agent of his in contravention of this section such dangerous goods shall, together with the vessels or puskages containing the same, be for- feited, and in addition thereto, such person shall be able to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars a day for each day during which such goods are proved to have been in his possession, custody or power or in the possession, custody or power of any servant agent of his."
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Memorandum.
This Bill amends the provisions of the Dangerous Goods Ordinances by giving a more extended meaning to the "keeping of dangerous goods, e.g., dynamite, and it provides for the keeping of books being included in the conditions of a licence to store dangerous goods.
W. REES DAVIES, Attorney General,