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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1940.

Supplementary Schedule, contil.

SHORT TITLE,

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL,

113. The

Liquors Ordinance, 1931. (No. 36 of 1931, -contd.

(2) Upon the breach of any condition of any permit or any licence under this Ordinance, any deposit required as a con- dition on the granting of such permit or licence shall, upon application to a magis- trate, be declared by him to be forfeited.

(3) Upon the failure of any condition of any bond required in connexion with any permit or any licence under this Ordin- ance, the sum secured by the bond shall be deemed to be forfeited.

(4) Upon the making of an order or declaration of forfeiture under, or upon the happening of any event upon which anything is forfeited or deemed to be forfeited by, any provision of this Ordin- ance, the thing so forfeited or ordered or declared or deemed to be forfeited shall be deemed to be the property of the Crown free from all rights of any person.

(5) The Governor in Council in his absolute discretion may entertain and give ffeet to any moral claim to or in respect of any goods, money and anything whatso- ever forfeited or ordered or declared or deemed to be forfeited by or under any provision of this Ordinance.

any

(6; The provisions of this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of other provision of this Ordinance relating to forfeitures, and no forfeiture under this Ordinance shall relieve any person from any other penalty to which he toay be liable under this or

any other Ordinance.

44. Forfeiture by order of a magistrate under Evidence of

this Ordinance may be proved in any court, forfeiture. or before any competent tribunal, by the 39 & 40

Vict. c. 36, production of a certificate of such forfeiture

s. 263. purporting to be signed by the magistrate or by an examined copy of the record of such forfeiture certified by the magistrate's clerk.

as not

45. Dutiable goods abandoned by the importer Destruction

or proprietor as not worth the duty may be of goods destroyed or disposed of within such time abandoned and in such manner as the Superintendent worth the may direct.

duty. 39 & 40 Vict. c. 36, s. 94.

PART II.-LIQUORS.

46. In the application of this Ordinance to Interpreta-

liquors

means any

(a) Adulterated liquor liquor mixed or coloured to the prejudice of the purchaser with any ingredient what- ever or with water, so as to increase the bulk and measure of the liquor, to impair its quality or to conceal its inferior quality, and includes any liquor, whether injurious to health or not, which is in nature and quality not virtually that demanded by the

tion.