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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 120. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 29th March, 1934:-
C.S.O. 3/4299,29.
No. 319.3.34.-3.]
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 7 1929, s. 2.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Sunday Cargo Working Ordin-
ance, 1929.
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 Sunday Cargo Working Amendment Ordinance, 1934,
2. Paragraph (a) of section 2 of the Sunday Cargo Work- ing Ordinance, 1929 is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-
(a) "Cargo" does not include coal for the ship's bunkers, water or other necessaries for the use of the ship, mails, personal luggage, live stock, ice, meat, fish, milk, cream, bread, confectionery, fruit, vegetables, flowers and other articles of a perishable nature.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 2 (a) of the principal Ordinance excluded mails, personal luggage, live stock, ice, and other articles of food of a perishable nature required for immediate con- sumption from the definition of "cargo" for the working of which Sunday permits were required.
2. It has not been the practice, however, strictly to enforce the provisions of the Ordinance with respect to coal for the ship's bunkers, water and other necessaries for the use of the ship.
3. At the suggestion of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce the practice of excluding such necessaries from the operation of the principal Ordinance is regularised by this of the new amending Ordinance. The last sixteen words definition are from the Second Schedule to the Shops Act, 1912 (2 Geo, 5. c. 3).
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.