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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong 16th. November,
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Report on Ordinance No.:
46
of 1911.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled
* An Ordinance to amend the Liquor Consolidation Ordina
-co, 1911. *
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's
Instructions,
The amendments (a) and (e) introduced into the Principal Ord
nance by section 2 of this Ordinance are due to the decision that Part
1 of the Principal Ordinance shall not be made to apply to any part of
the New Territories other than New Kowloon. The Liguor Licences Ordi-
nances 1898 and 1909 repealed by the Principal Ordinance did not apply
to the New Territories (see Ordinance No.34 of 1910 section 4) and it
has been found inconvenient to apply the provisions of Part 1 of the
Principal Ordinance thereto. The amendments (b) and (c) of the said
section are introduced because it has been found that the word "woman"
does not legally cover girls although it was clearly the intention of
the framers of the Principal Ordinance and of the Legislative Council
which passed it to include girls. The amendment (d) corrects a mistake
in the Principal Ordinance. It re-introduces the provisions of section