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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bills.
No. S. 338.-The following bills are published for general information :--
C.S.O. 717/1919 II.
A BILL
[No. 22-15.9.34.-4.]
Short title.
Amendment
of Ordin-
ance No. 1
of 1873, S. 2,
Amendment
of Ordin
ance No. 1 of 1873,
8. 5.
Substitution
for Ordin-
ance No. 1
of 1873, 8. 9.
Label on container of dangerous
goods.
An Ordinance to
INTITULED
amend further the Dangerous Goods
Ordinance, 1873.
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 Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1934.
2. Section 2 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance. 1873, is amended by the deletion of the words "an order of" in the fourth line of paragraph (b) thereof.
3. Sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873, is amended-
(i) by the repeal of paragraph (f) thereof and the substitution of the following paragraph:-
(f) for prescribing any tests to be applied for any purpose whatsoever to any dangerous goods or to any receptacle which has contained petroleum;
and (ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph (f) immediately after paragraph (f) thereof :--
(f) for prescribing the labels to be attached or affixed to dangerous goods or other methods of marking such goods;
4. Section 9 of the said Ordinance is repealed and the following section substituted :-
9.--(1) Where any dangerous goods-
(a) are sent or conveyed by land or water between any two places in the Colony; or
(b) are sold or exposed for sale;
the drum, tin, case or other package containing them shall have attached thereto the label, if any, prescribed by the Governor in Council under this Ordinance in respect of such goods.