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Short title.
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 36 of
as enacted
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to alcoholic liquors.
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 Liquors Amend- ment Ordinance, 1936.
2. Sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Liquors Ordinance, 1931, as enacted by section 3 of the Liquors Amendment
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1931, s. 6 (3) Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the insertion of the words who is not the holder of a dealer's licence,' after the words any other person in the first line.
by Ordin-
ance No. 11 of 1935, s. 3.
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Objects and Reasons.
1. Sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Liquors Con- solidation Ordinance, 1911 (Ordinance No. 9 of 1911) was as follows:-
(3) No person shall for and on behalf of any other person, who is not the holder of a dealer's licence, accept or receive orders for, or import on commission or act as agent for the import of, any intoxicating liquor in quantities exceeding two gallons at one time without an appropriate licence under which the licensee is permitted to sell such liquor as a dealer.
2. That sub-section was not re-enacted in the later consolidation Ordinance, No. 36 of 1931, which repealed Ordinance No. 9 of 1911.
3. The sub-section was however restored by the amend- ing Ordinance No. 11 of 1935, with the important difference however that the words 66 who is not the holder of a dealer's licence,' were omitted.
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4. It has been found that the omission of these pro- tective words inflicts hardship on certain commission agents who place orders for licensed dealers but who do not them- selves clear or handle the liquor ordered.
5. The object of this new amending Ordinance is to restore the nine omitted words and thus to bring the position back to what it was under the 1911 Ordinance.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
January, 1936.
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