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Objects and Reasons.
The object of this bill is to provide for the fees to be paid in this Colony in respect of various things and matters to be granted or done under the provisions of the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1914.
The regulations made by the Secretary of State and published in the London Gazette of the 1st January, 1915, and in the Hongkong Government Gazette of the 28th May, 1915, are in force in the Colony except so far as respects the imposition of fees, and the appointment of a table of fees is therefore necessary in order to completo the machinery of the Act here.
A BILL
INTITULED
J. H. Kemp, Attorney General,
An Ordinance to amend further the Tramway
Ordinance, 1902.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
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construction.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Tramway Amend- Short title ment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as and
with the Tramway Ordinance, 1902, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance and with the Tramway Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Tramway Ordinances, 1902-1915.
2. Section 36 of the Principal Ordinance is amended as Amendment follows:-
of Ordi- nance No.
(a.) By the substitution of the figures "15" for the 10 of 1902,
figures" 10" in the fifteenth line thereof.
(6.) By the substitution of the figures "20" for the figures 15" in the sixteenth line thereof.
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(c.) By the repeal of the following words in the eighteenth to the twenty-second lines there- of :-
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"Provide l also that, as regards Sections Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 the Governor-in- "Council may, if he shall think fit to do Li 80,
authorise the maximum rate of speed to be increased to a rate not exceeding "the rate of 12 miles an hour."
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(d.) By the insertion of the words "or such period less than oue month as the Governor-in- Council may agree to", between the word "made” and the word "the" in the thirty-first line thereof. (e.) By the substitution of a comma for the full stop in the thirty-seventh line thereof, and the ad- dition of the words "or within such shorter period after their publication in the Gazette as the Governor-in-Council may order" at the end of the said section.
s. 36.
3. Section 48 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment the deletion of the words "and outside" in the twenty- of Urdi- first and twenty-second lines thereof.
nance No. 10 of 1902,
8. 48.