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A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to repeal in part the Malay
States Extradition Ordinance, 1903.
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 Malay States Short title Extradition Amendment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be and con- read and construed as one with the Malay States Extradi- tion Ordinance, 1903.
2. The Malay States Extradition Ordinance, 1903, is hereby repealed in so far as it applies to the States of Perak, Selangor, Pahang, Negri Sembilan, Kelantan, Kedah
and Perlis.
struction. Ordinance No. 4 of 1903.
Partial re- peal of Or- 4.of 1903.
dinance No.
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Objects and Reasons.
The Straits Settlements and Protected States Fugitive Offenders Order in Council, 1916, which was made by virtue of the provisions of the Fugitive Offenders (Pro- tected States) Act, 1915, provides that the Fugitive Offenders Act, 1881, is to apply as if the Federated Malay States and the States of Johore, Kedah, Perlis, Kelantan, Brunei and North Borneo were British possessions. This Order in Council, which was published in the Hongkong Gazette of the 15th December, 1916, was brought into force on the 1st February, 1917, by the necessary notifica- tion under Article I, and from that date the Malay States Extradition Ordinance, 1903, Ordinance No. 4 of 1903 of the Ordinances of Hongkong, was rendered unnecessary except as regards the State of Trengganu. This bill accordingly repeals the Ordinance in question except in so far as it applies to that State.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy and
Poisons Ordinance, 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 Pharmacy and Short title Poisons Amendment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and con-
struction. and construed as one with the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916, hereinafter called the Principal Ordi- Ordinance nance, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be No. 9 of cited together as the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinances, 1916 and 1917.
1916.
2. Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the deletion of the words "in respect of which an
of Ordinance No. 9 of offence has been committed" in the sixth and seventh
1916, s. 16. lines thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words "if any offence has been committed in respect of such poison or syringe or other appliance".
3. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the substitution of the word "place' for the word of Ordinance "premises" in the fifth line thereof.
No. 9 of
1916, s. IS.