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Objects and Reasons.

This Ordinance reduces the period of grace for unvac- einated children born within the Colony or admitted to school therein, from six months to six weeks and repeals the sub-section of section 14 of the principal Ordinance which exempted guardians from penalties for not causing children to be vaccinated during the summer months. Sub-section (3) of that section is altered so as to allow six weeks instead of one month as the period of grace in the case of children brought here for the first time. This Ordinance also repeals a sub-section of section 21 of the principal Ordinance the effect of which is spent.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General,

March, 1931.

USO.

A BILL

[No. 4-7.4.31.-2.7

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Legal Practitioners

Ordinance, 1871.

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 Legal Practi- Short title. tioners Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

of Ordinance

• 2. Section 21 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Amendment 1871, is amended by the deletion of the last seven lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words :--

"and sucb persous as have been admitted to practise as attorneys, solicitors, law agents or proetors in Great Britain or Ireland, to practise as solicitors in the court."

No. 1 of 1871, s. 21.

3. Section 2 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Amendment 1871 is amended by the repeal of paragraph (e).

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1871, s. 2

4. Section 22 of the Legal Practitioners Ordinance, Amendment 1871, is amended :-

() in the first line of paragraph (b) by the deletion of the word "writer" and by the substitution therefor of the words "law agent";

() in the third line of paragraph (6) by the deletion of the words "Hongkong Law Society" and by the substitution therefor of the words "Incor- porated Law Society of Hong Kong";

(ii) in the ninth line of paragraph (b) by the deletion of the words "or writers" and by the substitu- tion therefor of the words ", law agents or proctors";

(r) in the tenth line of paragraph (b) by the deletion

of the words "at London, Dublin or Edinburgh and by the substitution therefor of the words "in Great Britain or Ireland";

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of Ordinance No. 1 of

1871, s. 22.

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