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2. It is considered desirable to increase these powers to the extent indicated in the new section 4A.
3. Although the enforcement of the revenue laws of foreign countries is not generally a matter which concerns the authorities and courts of any place (See 17 Halsbury para. 846) the activities of smugglers frequently result in the imposition of fines on innocent shipowners, the detention of their ships and the interference with discipline among their crews, besides giving any port from which they operate a bad name and causing the imposition of unnecessary restrictions on its legitimate trade.
4. Although the new section covers all unmanifested or unauthorised cargo it is aimed rather more at the "pidgin" cargo carried by members of a crew than at the contents of passengers' luggage which can be examined with ease by the proper authorities. A power to exempt from prohibition cargo carried in passengers' luggage is therefore included among the powers conferred by the section.
May, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
[No. 23-18.4.32.-1.]
C.S.O. s. 5067/27 and 3596/32.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the United Kingdom Designs
(Protection) Ordinance, 1928.
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 United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Amendment Ordinance, 1932.
Short title.
Amendment
ance No. 18
2. The United Kingdom Designs (Protection) Ordinance, of Ordin- 1928, is amended by the addition of the following paragraph of 1928, at the end of section 4 :---
"Such grounds shall be deemed to include the publication of the design in Hong Kong prior to the date of registration of the design in the United Kingdom.”
s. 4.