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Objects and Reasons.
1. Under section 7 (1) (a) of the principal Ordinance, the Chinese members for the time being of the Legislative Council are ex officio members of the Chinese Temples Committee.
2. The Chinese member of the Executive Council was antil recently also a member of the Legislative Council. The main object of the amendment is to enable him to remain ex officio a member of the Committee.
3. In paragraph (b) the words "for such period as he may approve have been substituted for "from time to time."
4. In paragraph (ƒ) as enacted by Ordinance No. 31 of 1930, s. 17, the words "appointed annually by the Governor on the nomination of" have been substituted for "nominated annually by.".
January, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
C.S.O. 7 in 4299/31.
A BILL
[No. 2-5.1.32.-1.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordi-
nance, 1901.
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 Foreshores and Short title.. Sea Bed Amendment Ordinance, 1932.
2. Section 3 of the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, Substitution 1901, is repealed and the following section is substituted for Ordinance therefor :-
No. 15 of 1901, s. 3.
leases of
and sea bed,
3.(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor to grant Power to and to agree to grant such Crown leases for any term not grant Crown exceeding seventy-five years, or for such longer term as the foreshore Secretary of State may authorise, of the foreshore and sea bed within the limits of the waters of the Colony, and of Crown land covered with water in any tidal river or channel connected with such waters, as may be declared by the Governor in Council to be expedient to be granted for the purpose of reclamation, harbour improvement, or building, or for the construction of docks, slips, piers, or wharves, or in view of the requirements of manufactures, commerce, or traffic, or for any other purpose whatsoever : Provided always that, before any such declaration is made, the terms of the lease proposed to be made, with a description of the