THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 30, 1916.
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REGISTRATION OF PERSONS BILL.The Attorney General moved that the Council resolve itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill intituled An Ordinance to provide for the registration of certain persons.
The Colonial Secretary seconded. Question--put and agreed to.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
On the motion of the Attorney General the following amendments were agreed to:--
The word "included in the first line of sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 2, and sub-sections (1), (3), and (4) of section 3, was deleted and the words except the persons specified” substituted therefor.
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The words "two weeks in the second and third, and in the fourth and fifth lines, respectively, of sub-section (2) of section 2 were deleted and the words one week substituted therefor; and the words "of Police were inserted after the word "Superin- tendent" in the fifth line of the same sub-section.
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The following sub-section, numbered (3), was inserted after sub-section (2) of section. 2, and sub-sections (3) and (4) were re-numbered (4) and (5) respectively :-
"(3.) Every person who shall hereafter cease to fall within the excepted classes specified in the First Schedule hereto, whether on account of a change in the status of such person or on account of an alteration in the said Schedule or for any other cause, shall within one week of his so ceasing to fall within the said excepted classes, unless such person shall have departed from the Colony within the said period of one week, furnish to the Captain Superintendent of Police a return of the particulars specified in the Second Schedule hereto."
In the First Schedule :-
The words " All persons except the following:-
in the first line were deleted.
The following new paragraph, numbered (1), was inserted after the third paragraph, and paragraphs (4), (5), and (6) were re-numbered (5), (6), and (7), respectively :--
"(4.) Consular officers of foreign States."
The word "three" in the second line of paragraph (4), re-numbered (5), was deleted and the word "four" substituted therefor.
The word "nationality" in paragraph (5), re-numbered (6), was deleted and the word racę" substituted therefor.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with amendments and moved that it be read a third time.
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The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
ADJOURNMENT.---The Council then adjourned until Thursday, the 29th day of June,
Read and confirmed this 29th day of June, 1916.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.
F. H. MAY,
Governor.