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REGE 27 MAY 12,
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong.. 20th. April,
1912.
Report on Ordinance No../A. of 1912.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance entitled
"An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Dangerous
Goods."
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions,
It has been considered desirable to authorise imprisonment
fer offences against section 10(5) of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance in
lieu of or in addition to a fine.
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The sub-section which is substituted for the repealed one,
limits the period of imprisonment to 6 months in lieu of or in addition
to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. It also preserves the daily
penalty of one hundred dollars imposed by the repealed sub-section en
illegal possession of dangerous goods. The dangerous goods and vessels
containing them are made "liable to forfeiture". It was considered that
the forfeiture should not be absolute as a bomb might be temporarily
kept in some valuable receptacle not for security but by chance and by
the action of some servant of the person convicted.
The Ordinance was introduced on the urgent representations