THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 26, 1941.
HONG KONG.
1425
No. 20 or 1941.
I assent.
L.S.
MARK YOUNG,
Governor.
26th September, 1941.
An Ordinance to amend the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931, as amended by the Betting Duty Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
[26th September, 1941.]
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 Betting Duty Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1941.
of Ordinance
2. The Proviso to section 2 of the Betting Duty Amendment Ordinance, 1931, as enacted by section 2 of the Betting No. 40 of Duty Amendment Ordinance, 1940, is repealed and the 1931, s. 2 following Proviso is substituted therefor :-
amended by Ordinance No. 33 of
Provided that not less than eighty-eight per cent., or in 1940, s. 2. the case of a club organizing the race not less than seventy- six per cent., of the total contributions or subscriptions, after deduction of the duty, shall be devoted to prizes for the subscribers.
of Ordinance
3. Section 6 (2) of the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931, Amendment as amended by section 3 of the Betting Duty Amendment No. 40 of Ordinance, 1940, is further amended by the substitution of 1931, s. 6 the words fifteen per cent." for the words ten per cent.
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amended by Ordinance No. 33 of 1940, s. 3.
ment except
1941, Race
4. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day Commence- of October, 1941: Provided that the provisions of the Betting in the case of Duty Ordinance, 1931, as amended by the Betting Duty Amend- Kwangtung ment Ordinance, 1940, shall continue to apply in the case of Handicap, cash-sweep tickets sold, or to cash-sweep chances allocated of the Hong by list, on the Kwangtung Handicap Race of the Hong Kong Kong Jockey Jockey Club Scheduled for the 25th October, 1941, whether run on that date or on any postponed date substituted therefor.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of September, 1941.
Club.
R. EDWARDS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.