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cooker, it might have been said had the regulations been enacted as permanent regulations, that the Colonial Legislature could not under their existing powers make others directly or indirectly repugnant to them.
The regulations provided by the Chinese Passenger Act are however only to be in force until the enactment of regulations by the legislature in Hong Kong and the proclamation in Hong Kong of Her Majesty's confirmation of such enactment. We think under these circumstances that the Hong Kong Legislature retained, subject to the provision delaying the Ordinance taking effect till Her Majesty's confirmation had been proclaimed, full power to enact.