THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 1, 1911.
16. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be taken to affect Effect of any debt or liability incurred by a registered partnership or a registration registered partner or hung ku shareholder prior to the date not re-
trospective. of the certificate of their respective registrations issued under section 12.
17. This Ordinance shall emne into operation on the Commence- first day of January, 1912.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 30th
ment of Ordinance.
day of November, 1911.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excelleney the Governor, the 1st
day of December, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG.
No. 54 of 1911.
An Ordinance to make provision for impounding
stray animals and for the disposal thereof.
F. D. LUGARD,
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Governor.
[1st December, 1911.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pounds Ordin- Short title.
ance, 1911.
s. 26.
2. Any animal which may be found at large without any Impounding person having the charge theroof and which may in the stray animal. opinion of any police officer appear to have been lost or to f. 10 & 11 be doing damage may be seized and impounded by such Viet c. 89 police officer in any convenient place and may be detained therein until the owner thereof shall have paid to the Cap- tain Superintendent of Police the reasonable expenses of impounding and keeping such animal together with the pound fee.
3. The Governor-in-Council may make regulations fix- Pound fees. ing the pound fees for animals generally or for any parti- cular classes of animal. Provided however that if no such regulations shall have been made, or if the animal im- pounded does not fall within any class in respect of which, a pound fee shall have been fixed, the pound fee shall be one dollar.
4.-1.) If the said expenses and pound fee be not paid Power to sell within three days after such impounding notice of the in- impounded tention to sell the animal shall be published in the Ga- animals.
zette.
(2.) If the expenses of impounding and keeping the animal and of the publication in the Gazette and the pound fee are not paid within seven days after the said publica- tion it shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police to cause the animal to be sold either by private treaty or by public auction as he may think fit and the purchaser thereof shall acquire a good title. If the animal should prove unsaleable or if in the opinion of the Captain Superintendent of Police it should be unsaleable it may be destroyed or otherwise disposed of as he may direct.
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