504 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 27, 1929.7
HONG KONG.
No. 15 or 1929.
I assent.
L.S.
C. CLEMENTI, Governor.
Short title.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 9 of 1921, s. 12 and substitu- tion of new section.
24th September, 1929.
An Ordinance to amend the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Ordi- nance, 1921.
[24th September, 1929.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Maintenance' Orders (Facilities for Enforcement) Amendment Ordi- nance, 1929.
2. Section 12 of the Maintenance Orders (Facilities for Enforce a ent) Ordinance, 1921, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:
12. Where the Governor is satisfied that recipro- eal provisions have been made by the legislature of any British possession or any territory under His Majesty's protection for the enforcement within such possession or territory of maintenance orders made by courts in Hong Kong, the Governor may by procla mation extend this Ordinance to such possession or territory, and this Ordinance shall thereupon apply in respect of such possession or territory as though the references to England or Ireland were references to such possession or territory and the references to the Secretary of State for the Colonies were references to the Governor of such possession or territory.
Effect of 3. Every preclamation which has been made by the proclamations Governor under the section repealed by this Ordinance already made. shall from the coming into operation of this Ordinance have the same effect as if it had been made under the section substituted therefor by this Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 23rd day of September, 1929.
E. I. WYNNE-JONES,
Deputy lerk of Councils.