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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,
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Hongkong,
15th December, 1908.
Report on Ordinance No. 20 of 190 8.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entilled
An Ordinance to amend The Interpretation Ordinance
1897 and to remove an ambiguity in the construction
of the same.
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to
the Governor's Instructions.
The reason for amending the Interpretation Ordinance is conse-
quent upon the defect which was discovered in Ordinance No. 3 of 1895 in a recent case which was before the Supreme Court in April last brought for "Criminal Conversation" and it was then discovered that by the effect of Ordinance No. 3 of 1695 the Action for criminal conversation had unintentionally been repealed and did not exist in this Colony. Further more the Ordinance No. 3 of 1895 enacted that, since Ordinance No. 5 of
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