(C.S.O. 380/1888).
1646
[No. 20:-26.6.34.-3.]
Short title.
Certain official
signatures
and fees therefor.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1870.
Schedule.
Power to amend Schedule.
Repeal of
Ordinances
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to regulate certain official signatures and to
provide for the payment of fees therefor.
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 Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1935.
or
2. (1) Subject to the provisions of the Crown Fees Ordinance, 1870, where by or under any enactment of this Colony or elsewhere, the signature of the Governor or any public officer mentioned in the Schedule is required to any certificate, authorization, consent, licence, permit exemption, or any alteration, transfer or renewal thereof, addition thereto or endorsement thereon, or any copy of the same, and no fee for such signature is prescribed by law, the appropriate fee prescribed in the Schedule shall be payable for such signature.
(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance where by or under any enactment of this Colony the signature of any public officer is required to any document, it shall be sufficient unless otherwise expressly enacted if a similitude of the signature of such public officer is impressed on the document by some other person by or under his authority, and authenticated by the signature of such other person.
3. The Governor in Council may amend the Schedule in any manner whatsoever.
4. The Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888, the Official Signatures Fees Amendment Ordinance, 1931, and 1888, No. 22 the Official Signatures Fees Amendment Ordinance, 1934,
No. 1 of
of 1931 and
No. 24 of
1934.
are repealed.
SCHEDULE.
[ss. 2 and 3].
Designation of officer.
Fee for signature.
The Governor
$10.00
The Colonial Secretary
5.00
The Colonial Treasurer
5.00
The Secretary for Chinese Affairs
5.00
The Director of Public Works...
5.00
The Director of Medical and Sanitary Services
5.00
The Inspector General of Police
5.00