regulated amongst other things the
licensing, weighing
and brokerage of
Pawnbrokers,
salt, the licensing of
and Auctioneers.
The greater part of this Ordinance has long become obsolete. Section 9 empowering
the Governor
to levy
an auction duty of 2 1/2 % on
all sales by auction was virtually repeated by a Government Notice so far back as 1849: Ordinance 8 of 1856. Sections 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 which relate to hawkers,
and undertakers of Chinese funerals
are also
repeated but are virtually re-enacted with the exception
of Section 15, the provision of this Section can be inserted in regulations to be made under
the Ordinance.
4. Ordinance 5 of 1883 relating to Vehicles and Public Traffic is also repeated but the whole is re-enacted except Section 7 which
will be inserted in the new
the new Good Order and Cleanliness Ordinance.
(Signed) Edw. J. Ackroyd, Acting Attorney General
Enclosure 3.
REPORT
ON ORDINANCE NO. OF 1887.
1. What portions of existing local Ordinances
are re-enacted?
1.
What portions of existing Ordinances are
repealed?
3. What amendments, if any, of existing Law are
proposed in the Draft?
4. What portions, if any, of the Imperial Statute
Law are incorporated in the Draft?
352
No. 5 of 1845 Sections 7 and 8
8.1888 Sections 11, 12, 13 and 18 (in part).
5.1883. The whole except
Section 7.
No. 5 of 1845
2.
8.1856 Sections 11, 12, 13,
18 and 19.
4. No specific amendment
is proposed, but the Ordinance consolidates and simplifies the existing Law.
None.
HONGKONG,
31 March
1887.
H. Andrew H[e]nry Hick
Secretary,
Law Revision Commission.