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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 3, 1939.
10. Criminal Procedure Amendment Bill.--The. Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899.”
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
11. Sedition Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General moved the Second reading of a
Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Sedition Ordinance, 1938.”
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
The Attorney General moved the following amendments :-
Amendment to Clause 2.
Insert the following paragraphs as paragraphs (a) and (b) and renumber the
remaining paragraphs as paragraphs (c) and (d) respectively:-
(a) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraplı
(i) in sub-section (1) thereof :-
(i) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite disaffec- tion against the person of His Majesty, or His heirs or successors, or against the Government of this Colony or the Government of any other part of His Majesty's dominions or of any territory under His Majesty's protection as by law established; or
(6) by the repeal of paragraph (vi) in sub-section (1) thereof. The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee with amendments and requested a ruling from the President as to whether these amendments were material. The President said that in his opinion the amendinents were not material but that as it was a point on which there might be some doubt in the minds of members he preferred to leave the question to the Council and he therefore asked the Attorney General to move a suspension of Standing Orders in accordance with the provisions of Standing Order No. 28 (1).
The Attorney General accordingly moved the suspension under Standing Order No. 28 (1) of so much of the Standing Orders as stood in the way of the Bill being read a third time at the same meeting.
The Colonial Secretary seconded and Council approved the suspension. The Attorney General then moved the Third reading of the Bill.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
12. Empire Preference (No. 2) Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General moved the First reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend further the law
relating to Empire Preference.”
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
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