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Permission is hereby granted to move the above-men- tioned liquors for export in the manner described, ou condition that the said liquors shall be immediately moved from the first ship named above to the second ship named above.
Superintendent,
Imports and Exports Office.
Nore. If the permit is not made use of on the day in respect of which it is issued, it must be returned within 24 hours to the office of the Superintendent of Imports and Exports.
Objects and Reasons.
1. This Ordinance makes certain amendments in the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, Ordinance No. 9 of 1911, which experience has shown to be advisable.
2. Section 2 of this Ordinance amends section 2 of the principal Ordinance as follows :—
(4) In paragraph (8) "the Government Analyst" is altered to " Government Analyst" because there are more analysts than one in the service of the Government, one of them being attached to the Imports and Exports Department: see also sections 17 and 18 of this Ordinance.
(4) Paragraph (11) is repealed because eating-bonse licences are now issued by the Head of the Sanitary Department in accordance with Noti- firation No. 600 of the 21st October, 1927: see also sections 7. 24, and 25 of this Ordinance.
(c) Paragraph (13) of section 2 of the principal Ordinance provides inter alia that in the case of Chinese spirits 7 catties are to be treated as equivalent to one imperial gallon. This provi- sion is repealed for two reasons, One is that there is no standard catly. The other is that the volume of a catty's weight of spirit increases as the alcoholic strength increases. The result, therefore, of the provision now to be repealed is that the stronger a spirit is the lower is the duty which is paid on it.
(d) The new paragraph (204) defines Person" in the same language as in the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916.
Paragraph (29) is amended so its to give an Assistant Superintendent of Fmports and Exports the same power and rights as the Superintendent.
3. Section 3 of this Ordinance adds to section 3 (1) of the principal Ordinance the additional offence of possession by an unlicensed person of any fermenting or fermented material without lawful authority or excuse. The other amendment effected by section 3 is in conformity with Government Notification No. 159 of the 18th March, 1927, which, inter alia, substituted the Superintendent of Imports and Exports for the Captain Superintendent of Police as the licensing authority in the case of distillery licences.
4. Section 4 of this Ordinance substitutes the Superin- tendent of Imports and Exports for the Captain Superin- tendent of Police as the licensing authority under section 4 of the principal Ordinance, which provides for the Reensing of stills for medical or scientific purposes.