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No. S. 45. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 22nd February, 1917:-
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A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the War Loan Ordi-
nance, 1916.
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 War Loan Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1917. and shall be read and and construed as one with the War Loan Ordinance, 1916.
construction.
2. The following section shall be added to the War Addition of Loan Ordinance, 1916:-
Exemption from
Defence Contribution.
Ordinance No. 1 of 1901.
"14. All moneys appropriated out of the revenue and assets of the Colony for the payment of the interest on the bonds and for the formation of the sinking fund, and all dividends interest or produce of any investments which represent any portion of the sinking fund, shall be deducted from the Colonial revenues before the calculation of the sums payable to His Majesty's Government under the Defence Contribution Ordi- nance, 1901."
new section to Ordinance No. 12 of 1916.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this bill is to provide that the revenue appropriated for the service of the Hongkong War Loan shall be exempt from military contribution.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the powers of arrest possessed by revenue officers.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may by cited as the Revenue Short title. Officers Power of Arrest Ordinance, 1917.
2. In this Ordinance "Revenue Officer" includes Interpreta- every person appointed to act as a revenue officer under tion. the provisions of any enactment specified in the First Schedule hereto.
3.-(1.) Any revenue officer may arrest without war- Power of rant any person found or reasonably suspected of com- arrest. mitting or attempting to commit, or employing, aiding or assisting any person to commit any offence against, or of the unlawful possession of any article liable to forfeiture under, the provisions of any enactment speci- fied in the Second Schedule hereto.