opposite Chinese Customs Stations on the Chinese side. This means that goods crossing the Colony frontier are directed on to Chinese Customs Stations where the Chinese Authorities will be able to control them.
The Ordinance thus institutes a system of control sufficiently compatible with the Colony's sovereignty while limiting the move- ment of commodities from the Colony to China to those channels of which Hong Kong has control at one end while China has control at the other.
The necessity has long been seen in the United Kingdom and elsewhere within the Empire for legislation for the regulation and guidance of Trade Unions and also for legislation providing machinery for the settlement of Trade Disputes. The Trade Unions and Trade Disputes Ordinance, enacted in 1948, is designed to meet this necessity and provides for the Colony legislation which had been prepared for enactment before the outbreak of war.
An effect of the war which has been experienced in the Colony, as elsewhere in the world, has been an increase in corrupt practice. A strengthening and clarification of the law of the Colony to counter this offence became necessary and was effected by the enactment of the Prevention of Corruption Ordinance, 1948. The Ordinance has assimilated the law of the Colony in relation to corruption to the law in force in the United Kingdom and, further, in view of the prevalence of offences in the Colony, has aimed at a lightening of the task of proving offences. The legislation seeks to achieve this object in three main ways-
(1) The Attorney General may order investigation of a suspect's bank account, share account or purchase account;
(2) The Court is authorised to receive in evidence the fact that the accused has suddenly become much richer than he should be or that he has been expending unusually large sums of money;
(3) A Judge is relieved of obligation to warn the jury in express terms that it is dangerous to convict on the evidence of an accomplice without corroboration in a material particular implicating the accused.
An Ordinance of domestic importance is exemplified by the Police Force Ordinance, 1948. Prior to the enactment of this Ordinance the legislation governing the establishment and control of the Hong Kong Police Force lay in the Police Force Ordinance,
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