BANK NOTES ISSUE.
No. 2 of 1895.
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4. This Ordinance shall not affect any right or privilege saving or possessed by any bank under Royal Charter or Ordinance of existing note issuing or re-issuing within the Colony bills or notes payable to bearer on demand.
issues.
5. If any bank makes, issues or circulates within the Colony any bank notes payable to bearer on demand in contravention of the provisions of this Ordinance, it and its principal manager or agent in the Colony and each of the partners (if any) therein shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and in the case of a second or subsequent conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months and to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars: Provided that if the offender be a body corporate it shall be liable on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.
No. 3 of 1895.
An Ordinance to restrict the immigration of Chinese into the Colony.
[9th April, 1895.]
WHEREAS the immigration of Chinese into the Colony may at any moment become a source of imminent danger to the health of the residents and others in the Colony, and it is expedient to make provision in respect thereof:
No. 5 of 1895.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Immigration Ordinance, 1895.
2. Whenever the Governor in Council is satisfied that the bubonic plague, cholera, small-pox, or such other disease as may be notified in the Gazette is prevalent or exists in any other port or place, and that there is danger of the introduction of the same into the Colony unless measures are taken to prevent the influx of Chinese, the Governor in Council may by proclamation prohibit or regulate the immigration or importation into the Colony of Chinese from such port or place for such time as he may think fit.
The issue of the notes of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China and of the Mercantile Bank of India, Limited, is duly sanctioned in accordance with the law. See G.N. 314 of 1912.
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.