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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 303.-The following bill is published for general information:—
C.S.O. 1035/11.
C.S.O. 1/5951/32II C.
A BILL
[No. 28. 2.8.34.-1.]
Short title.
Substitution
of new definition of "British Empire" in Ordinance No. 32 of 1932, s. 2.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Empire Preference Ordinance,
1932.
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 Empire Preference Amendment Ordinance, 1934.
2. Section 2 of the Empire Preference Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the repeal of the paragraph beginning "The British Empire" and by the substitution of the following para- graph therefor :-
"The British Empire" means the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Dominions, India, the territories administered by His Majesty's Governments in the Dominions under Mandate or otherwise, the British Colonies and protected States, and the Mandated Territories of Tan- ganyika, the Cameroons under British Mandate and Togoland under British Mandate.
Objects and Reasons.
1. In a despatch dated 2nd June, 1933, the Secretary of State gave instructions that a uniform definition of "the British Empire" should be included in the tariff legislation of all Colonies and Protectorates granting Imperial Preference.
2. The purpose of the present amendment is to give effect to those instructions and to adopt the definition of "the British Empire" set out in the said despatch in place of that appearing in the principal Ordinance.
July, 1934.
R. E. LINDSELL,
Attorney General.
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