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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1940.
L.S.
HONG KONG.
No. 22 or 1940.
I assent.
N. L. SMITH,
Officer Administering the Government.
28th June, 1940.
Short title.
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 7 of
1926, s. 6 (1).
An Ordinance to amend the Post Office Ordinance, 1926.
[28th June, 1940.]
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 Post Office Amend- ment Ordinance, 1940.
2. Sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Post Office Ordin- ance, 1926, is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:-
(v) letters of merchants, owners of vessels or aircraft of merchandise, or the cargo or loading therein, sent by those vessels or aircraft of merchandise or by any person employed by those owners for the carriage of those letters, according to their respective directions, and delivered to the respective persons to whom they are directed, without paying or receiving hire or reward, advantage or profit for the same in anywise.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 27th day of June, 1940.
C. BRAMALL BURGESS,
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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