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4. As the War Expenditure of the Colony recently undertaken or contemplated exceeds the estimate of revenue from the War Taxation Ordinance, the question of introducing a Resolution into the Legislative Council providing for an increase in the above rates has had to be considered; and in this connexion it has been deemed desirable to reduce the maximum for duty free admission charges from 20 cents to 14 cents and at the same time to increase the duties on all other admission charges.
5. This necessitates amending section 5 (1) (a) of the Ordinance by changing the 20 cents exemption to 14 cents which is effected by clause 2 of the Bill.
October, 1940.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
[No. 31-17.10.40.-1.7
A BILL
Short title.
Repeal of section 5 (4)
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Advertisements Regula-
tion Ordinance, 1912.
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 Advertisements Regulation (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
2. Sub-section (4) of section 5 of the Advertisements of Ordinance Regulation Ordinance, 1912, enacted by section 3 of the No. 19 of Advertisements Regulation Amendment Ordinance, 1940, is
1912 enacted
by Ordinance repealed.
No. 16 of 1940, s. 3.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 5 of the principal Advertisements Regulation Ordinance, No. 19 of 1912, as it appears in Volumn II of the 1937 edition of the Ordinances of Hong Kong gave certain powers to the Director of Public Works and the Commis-
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