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laws relating to Privacy
The Bill contains nothing in itself so far as freak legislation is concerned calling for comment, save with the exception of the omission of the High Court of Privacy clauses which formed an integral part of one of the Ordinances relating to Privacy, the Bill is but a re-enactment of all previous Ordinances on the subject.
On the second reading of the Bill, however, the Chief Justice took occasion to object to it; grd and 3rd Clauses, which are a reprint of two sections of Imperial Act, on the ground that "their embodiment in an Ordinance is beyond the powers of the Local Legislature, they being sections of Imperial Act, which have "reference to crime without the "jurisdiction of this Colony, and "are as such, incapable of amendment by local Ordinance".
Upon this objection being raised and upon the omission of the two clauses in question having been formally moved by the Chief Justice and seconded by the Honourable W. Keswick, I intimated that should the motion be carried, I should think it advisable to withdraw...
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