130
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
Draft Bill.
No. S. 74. The following Bill is published for general information :--
No. 3-13.2.37.-1.]
A BILL
Short title.
Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 19 of 1912 s. 2 (1) as enacted by Ordinance No. 3 of 1925, s. 2.
Regulations.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Advertisements Regulation
Ordinance, 1912.
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 Advertisements Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1937.
2. Sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Advertisements Regulation Ordinance, 1912 as enacted by section 2 of the Advertisements Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1925 is repealed and the following sub-section substituted therefor :-
2.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations with regard to the following matters :-
(a) the licensing, control, prohibition and removal of advertisements of any kind whatsoever which are visible from any street, or from the waters of the Colony, or from any other place to which the public have access, or from any land or building not belonging to or in the possession of the owner or occupier of the land or building on or in which the advertisements are exhibited;
(b) the prescribing of fees to be charged in connection with any of the above matters.
Objects and Reasons.
In view of the increasing number of street and sky signs and the consequent increase in the amount of work devolving on the Government in connection with their supervision and maintenance it is considered desirable that a proper system of licensing with a corresponding payment of licence fee should be put into operation.
The principal Ordinance does not make it abundantly clear that the Governor in Council has power to charge fees in connection with the issue of such licences and the proposed amendment is made for the purpose of removing all doubts.
March, 1937.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General