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The need for new editions of both Ordinances and Regula- tions has been apparent for some time and it is considered desirable that these should now be prepared.
2. Clause 7 provides that the new edition of the Ordin- ances shall include all the Ordinances in force on the 1st day of January, 1937, and also any unrepealed Ordinance passed before, but not brought into force on or before that date. The same clause also provides for a chronological table of Ordinances and an index to the Ordinances.
3. Clause 9 provides for the approval by proclamation of each volume of the Ordinances and Regulations after it is printed.
4. This Bill is based on the Ordinances of Hongkong, 1844-1923, Ordinance, No. 18 of 1923, and incorporates, in clauses 8 and 11 (2), provisions relating to the Regulations adapted from sections 5 and 6 of the Regulations Ordinance, No. 1 of 1926. The Bill repeals both Ordinance No. 18 of 1923 and No. 1 of 1926, and contains, so far as can now be foreseen, all the powers necessary to enable the new editions of Ordinances and Regulations to be prepared, and to secure their validity in due course.
5. A Table of Correspondence is attached showing in detail the variations between the clauses of this Bill and the corresponding sections of Ordinance No. 18 of 1923.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
October, 1936.
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