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(2) Section 3 is amended by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof-
(4) Anything seized under this section may be retained for a period not exceeding one month, or if within that period proceedings are commenced for an offence under this Ordin- ance until the conclusion of those proceedings, and subject as aforesaid, and to the provisions of this Ordinance con- ferring powers on courts dealing with offences, section 43 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, (which makes provision with respect to the disposal of property in the possession of the police) shall apply to property which has come into the possession of the police under this section as it applies to property which has come into the possession of the police in the circumstances mentioned in that section.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to amend section 3 of the Incite- ment to Disaffection Ordinance, 1939, so as to conform more closely with the provisions of section 2 (2) and (4) of the Incitement to Disaffection Act, 1934.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
December, 1939.
[No. 17/39-25.1.40.-2.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance.
1899.
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 Merchant Ship- Short title. ping Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
2. Sub-section (6) of section 22 of the Merchant Ship- Amendments ping Ordinance, 1899, is amended:-
of Ordinance No. 10 of 1899, s. 22
(a) by the repeal of the words "shall be liable to a fine (6). not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars in the four- teenth and fifteenth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months'
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