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purpose of enforcing forfeiture in cases where the owner of goods or things, which would be liable to forfeiture on his conviction, is unknown or cannot be found.
7. Cases arise in which the owner is known, but is outside the jurisdiction of the courts. In order to remove doubts and to implement an undertaking given to the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce in 1917 that the point would be dealt with at the next, amendment of the Ordinance, section 4 of this Ordinance adds the words "in the Colony" after the words "cannot be found".
8. Sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 5 of this Ordinance are based on sub-sections (1) and (3) of section 2 of the Mei- chandise Marks Act, 1891. The reference to the Legislature in sub-section 2 (1) of the Act is omitted as unnecessary and because it might be thought to conflict, to some extent, with Regulation 5 of the Regulations published in Statutory Rules and Orders, 1929, p. 1436, which it is intended to follow in the local regulations. Section 5 (2) of this Ordinance is in the usual form (compare section 2 (3) of Ordinance No. 35 of 1923).
February, 1934.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.