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Draft Bill.
No. S. 425.-The following bill is published for general information:-
USD 3261 27.
[No 37:-17.10.31—1]
A BILL
Short title.
Addition of new section 3A to Ordinance No. 9 of 1927.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 9 of 1927, s. 4.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Public Revenue
Protection Ordinance, 1927.
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 Revenue Protection Amendment Ordinance, 1931.
goods.
2. The following new section is added after section 3 of the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927 :—
Restriction of 3A. The Governor may at any time by del very of
order authorise the Superintendent of Im- dutiable
ports and Exports, during any period 5 & 6 Geo. 5, named in the order not exceeding four months, to refuse to allow the delivery of dutiable goods or commodities for local use from ship side or warehouse on payment of duty in any cases where deliveries are demanded of amounts exceeding the deli- veries which appear to the Superintendent to be reasonable deliveries in the circum- stances.
c. 89, s. 15.
3. Section 4 of the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927, is amended by the insertion of the words or order" after the word "resolution in sub- section (2) (b).
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Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 2 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section based on section 15 (1) of the Finance Act, (No 2) 1915, as amended by the Finance Act, 1919; but the duration of the order is put at four months instead of three to conform with the provisions of section 4 (2) (d) of the principal Ordinance.
2 Section 3 of this Ordinance amends section 4 (2) dson mom son (b) of the principal Ordinance so as to make provision for the notification of the withdrawal of any order made under the new section 3A.
C. G. ALABASTER, ·
|| Attorney General, milot ofT
AUTO2 October, 1931.