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4. The new paragraph added to section 13 of the principal Ordinance follows mutatis mutandis the wording of section 6 which made the deliberate importation of counterfeited King's current gold or silver coin punishable with imprisonment for
life.
5. The absence hitherto of any provision relating to the King's copper coin corresponding to section 6 of the principal Ordinance (which was based on section 7 of the Coinage Offences Act, 1861) was probably due to the fact that the importation of spurious cents or pence was unlikely.
6. Now, however, since ten cent and five cent pieces made of cupro-nickel have been authorised by Proclamation No. 4 in the Hong Kong Government Gazette Extraordinary of the 9th November, 1935, it has been found that the new coins are being counterfeited and imported and it is necessary to deal with that situation.
December, 1935.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.