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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 214.-The following Bill with amendments proposed to be made in Committee, is published for information under Standing Order 27 (14) :-
(C.S.O. 2/2/1068/15).
[No. 9-12.7.38.-3.]
Short title.
Amendment
of Ordin- ance No. 3 of 1934, s. 2.
52 and 53 Vict. c. 63,
s. 12 (20).
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Registration of Persons Ordinance,
1934.
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 Registration of Persons Amendment Ordinance, 1938.
2. Section 2 of the Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1934, is amended--
(a) by the repeal of the words "at Police Headquarters within seventy-two hours" in the fifth line of sub-section (2) thereof and the substitution therefor of the words "at the Registration of Persons Office, Police Department, within forty- eight hours";
(b) by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof :-
(6) In this section, "consular officer" includes consul- general, consul, vice-consul, consular agent, and any person for the time being authorized to discharge the duties of consul- general, consul or vice-consul.
3. The Registration of Persons Ordinance, 1934, is amended by the addition of the following section numbered of Ordinance 7A immediately after section 7 thereof:
New section 7A
No. 3 of 1934.
Limit of
time for prosecution. Ordinance
No. 41 of
1932.
7A. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 20 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, any complaint or information in respect of any offence under this Ordinance may be made or laid within two years after the commission of the offence.
Objects and Reasons.
1. It has been found necessary to accommodate the Regis tration of Persons Office, Police Department, in a separate building from Police headquarters.
Clause 2 of this Bill makes the necessary amendment in section 2 (2) of the Registration of Persons Ordinance, No. 3 of 1934, and at the same time reduces the period within which an alien, other than an alien of Chinese race, who arrives in the Colony or who changes his ordinary residential or business address or who is about to leave the Colony, shall report his arrival at the Registration of Persons Office, Police Department, from 72 to 48 hours for conformity with the practice in the Straits Settlements under section 4 of S.S. Ordinance, chapter 91. It has been found that the period of 72 hours formerly
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