Amendment
of Ordinance No. 1 of
1845, s. 39.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, s. 40.
Adds a new
s. 52 to Ordinance
No. 1 of 1845.
Repeals portions
of Ordinance No. 3 of 1888.
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11. Section 39 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the repeal of the word “ pawned" in the third line
thereof.
12. Section 40 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the repeal of the word "pawned in the third and also in the sixth lines thereof.
13. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition of the following new section at the end thereof :-
Regulations. 52.- (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations for the issue of permits under section 3, for the dressing of stone under section 4, for the control of noises under sections 12 and 13, and generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordi- mance shall be laid on the table of the Leg- islative Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legislative Council held after such re- gulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regula- tion shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatsoever, the said regulation shall without prejudice to anything done there- under, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of
such resolution.
14. Sections 22, 23, 25, 27 (1) (a), 27 (1) (c) the word “procession" in section 27 (4) and the whole of Part VII of the Regulation of Chinese Ordinance, 1888 are repealed.
Objects and Reasons.
1. This Bill is intended to effect certain amendments of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, (No. 1 of 1845).
2. Clause 2 transfers with amendments certain pro- visions of Ordinance No. 3 of 1888 to this general Ordinance.
The new paragraphs (13A.), (13B.), (13C.), (13D.), and (13E.) are derived respectively from sections 25 and 27, 22 and 27, and 23 and 27 and 50 and 51 of that Ordinance.
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The clause also deletes the word "
or from all but the penultimate paragraph as unnecessary and diffi- cult to insert correctly in the new paragraphs (13B) and (13C).
3. Clause 3 repeals section 6 (4) of the Ordinance which required householders to affix to their houses and keep lighted at night lamps or lanterns of an approved pattern.
The clause also repeals section 7 of the Ordinance. Sub-section (1) of that section is unnecessary as the powers of arrest given by it to the police are suffi- ciently covered by sections 26 and 27 of the Police Force Qrdinance No. 11 of 1900. Sub-section (2) of section 7 which gave several powers of arrest to private individuals is considered no longer necessary or desir- able.
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