THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 2, 1932.
2 This Ordinance therefore substitutes "alcoholic' "dutiable" or other suitable expressions for the word "intoxicating" or similar expressions in several sections of the Ordinance where they are considered more appropriate.
3. Paragraph (e) of section 2 of the Ordinance sanctions the practice of imposing special conditions in addition to the general conditions contained in the forms in the Third Schedule to the principal Ordinance.
4. Paragraph (f) amends the definition of spirituous liquors in section 2 (27) so as to make it correspond in its spirit content to the definition of "Intoxicating liquors" in section 2 (16) of the principal Ordinance.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
May, 1932.
Hong Kong.
LIQUOR DUTIES RESOLUTION.
Resolved that pursuant to section 39 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, Ordinance No. 36 of 1931, as amended by the Liquors Amendment Ordinance, 1982, that the Liquor Duties Resolutions of the 26th February, 1931, and the 17th March, 1932 (published respectively by Notifications Nos. 122 and 168 of the Gazettes of the 27th February, 1931 and the 18th March 1932) be rescinded and that on and after the coming into operation of this Resolution the Liquor Duties to be paid upon intoxicating or spirituous liquors, as the case may be, heretofore hereafter imported into, distilled, made or prepared in the Colony shall be assessed as in the following Table provided that, in the case of dutiable liquors heretofore or hereafter imported into the Colony the dollars and decimals thereof stated in the Table shall be conventional dollars reckoned as the equivalent of one shilling and eight pence sterling; and that consequently to arrive at the actual amount payable in Hong Kong currency the conventional dollar stated in the Table shall be multiplied by 20 and divided by a figure settled by the Colonial Treasurer from time to time representing the average opening selling rates for the previous month of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation for demand drafts on London and until so settled the figure shall be 16.10
Table.
Part I.
425
EUROPEAN TYPE LIQUOR.
Per gullon.
On all liqueurs, and on all champagnes and other
sparkling wines
$10.00
On all brandy, gin, rum, whisky and other spirituous
liquors
6.00
On all port, sherry and madeira
4.00
*