Short title.
Exemption
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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to exempt certain securities on imported goods from the operation of the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886.
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 Bills of Sale Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and con- strued as one with the Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886, and the said Ordinance and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Bills of Sale Ordinances, 1886 and 1914.
2. An instrument charging or creating any security on of certain
or declaring trusts of imported goods given or executed at securities on imported
any time prior to their deposit in a warehouse, godown, goods from
factory, or store, or to their being reshipped for export, or Ordinance delivered to a purchaser not being the person giving or No. 7 of
executing such instrument, shall not be deemed a bill of 1886.
sale within the meaning of the Bills of Sale Ordinance, (54 & 55 Vict. c. 35
1886. s. 1.)
Saving of Ordinance
No. 7 of 1891, s. 37.
(53 & 54 Vict. c. 53 s. 2.)
3. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect the operation of section 37 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891, in respect of any goods comprised in any such instrument as is hereinbefore described, if such goods would but for this Ordinance be goods within the meaning of that section.
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Objects and Reasons.
The object of the Bill is to introduce into this Colony the provisions of the Bills of Sale Act, 1890, as amended by the Bills of Sale Act, 1891, The Hongkong Bills of Sale Ordinance, 1886, was modelled closely on the English statutes existing at the time of its introduction, and it seems desirable to incorporate in it the changes subse- quently made in the law in England by the above Acts.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEpartment.
No. S. 241.-It is hereby notified that information has been received from the Colonial Secretary, Singapore, to the effect that under the Quarantine Regulations immigra- tion is prohibited on account of Plague, there being no accommodation available in the Quarantine Stations.
No. S. 242.-It is hereby notified, with reference to Government Notification No. S. 107 of the 9th April, 1914, that information has been received from H. B. M.'s Consul- General at Shanghai, to the effect that Hongkong has been released from Quarantine.