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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 2, 1932.
C.S.O. 3 in 4299/31.
[No. 15-28.5.32.-3.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Liquors Ordinance, 1931.
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 Liquors Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1932.
2. The Liquors Ordinance, 1931, is amended--
(a) by the substitution of the word "alcoholic" for the word "intoxicating" in the title, section 2 (9), section 2 (10), the heading to section 41, section 55 (2), section 58 (1), section 88 (1), section 88 (2) and section 88 (5).
(b) by the substitution of the word "dutiable" for "intoxicating" wherever it occurs in section 77, section 84 and section 88 (3).
(c) by the deletion of the word "intoxicating" wherever it occurs in section 78 (6) and section 83.
(d) by the substitution of the words "not liable to duty under this Ordinance" for the words "unfit for use as દી beverage" in section 2 (8).
(e) by the insertion of the words "and such other conditions as the Superintendent may impose" before the full stop at the end of sections 43 (1), 43 (2), 43 (3) first parapraph, 44 (1), 46 (1) and 56 (1).
(f) by the substitution of the following paragraph for section 2 (27):
(27) "Spirituous liquors" means liquors containing more than two per cent of proof spirit, but shall not include denatured spirits.
(g) by the substitution of the words “goods or" for the words "goods of" in section 88 (8).
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Officer Administering the Government.
Amend- inent of
Ordinance 1931.
No. 36 of
Objects and Reasons.
1. The Liquors Ordinance, No. 36 of 1931, like the Ordinances which it replaced, deals with many alcoholic liquors which, though intoxicating, are not usually so described and which are not included in the list of intoxicating liquors given in section 2 (16) of the Ordinance.
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