A BILL
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An Ordinance to amend the Foreign Offenders
Detention Amendment Ordinance, 1911.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Foreign Offenders hort title. (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1911.
2. Paragraphs (e) and (d) of section 2 of the Foreign Amends Offenders Detention Amendment Ordinance, 1911, are here- Ordinance by repealed and the words and figures in the Foreign No. 23 of Offenders Detention Ordinance, 1872, delcted or repealed by the said paragraphs are hereby restored.
Objects and Reasons.
His Majesty's Secretary of State has approved the prin- ciple of the main object of Ordmance No. 23 of 1911 but does not sanction the principle underlying the secondary object of that Ordinance which was to take away from Foreign Offenders, brought in custody into the Colony, the right of shewing cause to the Magistrate why they should not be committed to gaol there to await the order of the Governor under Ordinance No. 1 of 1872.
C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.
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A BILL
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An Ordinance to amend the Railways Ordinance,
1909.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council there- of, as follows :-
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1. This Ordinanco may be cited 18 the Railways Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1911.
2. The Railways Ordinance, 1909, is hereby amended Amends as follows:-
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(4.) in section 32 (1) (7) thereof by inserting the 1909. words “and for granting exemptions from such charges" after the word "railway ";
(b.) in section 36 thereof by the insertion of the words ",unless exempted from the payment of fare by or nuder any General Rule made under section 32," after the words "no person";
(c.) in section 36 thereof by the insertion of the words "not so exempted," after the words Every person" and also after the words "any person";
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(d.) by the repeal of section 48 thereof and by the substitution therefor of the following section:-~~
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"48.--(1.) No person shall carry or cause Carriage of to be carried upon a railway any dangerous goods of a goods as defined by section 2 of Ordinance No. dangerous or I of 1873 or any goods which may be declared nature. dangerous or offensive by any General Rule made under section 32 of this Ordinance, ex- cept in accordance with the provisions of any General Rule made under the last mentioned section.
(2.) If any person shall carry upon or deliver for carriage by the railway any dan- gerous goods without distinctly declaring the nature of the same he shall be liable on sum- mary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars.