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Council then went into Committee on the Bill. On Council resuming the Attorney General reported the Bill without amendment and moved that it be read a third time. Colonial Secretary seconded, motion agreed to, BI read a third time and passed.
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ARMS AND AMMUNITION ÂMENDMENT BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council then went into Committee on the Bill,
On the motion of the Attorney General it was agreed that the definition of “ Exempted person" in sub-section (2) of section 2 be amended by the addition of the words "in the Army and Navy" after the words "commissioned officers" in the first line, by the deletion of the words "Naval, Military," in the second line, and by the deletion of the words from or other person exempted "to the end of the sub-section and the substitution therefor of the words "barrister, solicitor, medical practitioner, clergyman of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priest or any minister of any congregation of Protestant dissenters or of Jews".
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Council then resumed, the Bill being left in Committee.
TUNG WA HOSPITAL EXTENSION BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance for the Establishment of a Hospital for the care and treatment of Chinese patients in the Kowloon Peninsula.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council then went into Committee on the Bill. On Council resuming the Attorney General reported the Bill without amendment and moved that it be read a third timė. The Colonial Secretary seconded, motion agreed to, Bill read a third time and passed.
CROWN SOLICITORS BILL.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the Second reading of the Bill entitled An Ordinance to enable Joseph Horsford Kemp Esquire, Barrister-at-law, to practise as Crown Solicitor in the Court and to provide for the payment of solicitors' costs in cases in which a salaried Crown Solicitor or Assistant Crown Solicitor acts as solicitor.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
CROWN LANDS RESUMPTION AMENDMENT BILL. --The Attorney General moved that the Committee stage on the Bill entitled An Ordinance to further amend the Crown Lands Resumption Ordinance, 1900, be resumed.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and motion was agreed to.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
Council resumed, the Bill being left in Committee.
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INTERPRETATION BILL. --The Attorney General moved that the Committee stage on the Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend and codify the law as to the Interpretation of Terms and as to Common Forms used in Ordinances, be resumed.
The Colonial Secretary seconded, and the motion was agreed to.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
The following amendments, proposed by the Attorney General, were agreed to :—
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In the definition of Board of Trade" in section 39 A the words the Lords and others of in the first line were deleted.