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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 337. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 23rd September, 1929:----
C.S.O. 3906/28.
[No. 25-19.9.29.—1.]
A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
Insertion of
new section 43 in Ordinance No. 1 of 1883.
An Ordinance to amend further the Distress
for Rent Ordinance, 1883.
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 Distress for Rent Amendment Ordinance, 1929.
2. The following section is inserted in the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, immediately after section 42 thereof:
Power to amend Schedules.
43. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to amend the Schedules in any manner whatsoever.
Objects and Reasons.
The First Schedule to the Distress for Rent Ordi- nance, 1883, Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, provides that where watchmen are kept in charge of property dis- trained 50 cents per day must be paid per man by the landlord. At the present day it is impossible to secure suitable watchmen for less than 60 cents a day. There is no power in the Ordinance to amend the Schedules. This Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a section giving the Governor in Council power to alter either of the Schedules in any manner whatsoever.
30th August, 1929.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.