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Report on an Ordinance intituled
An Ordinance to provide for the payment of fees in
respect of Private Bills.
The object of this ordinance, which was introduced with the approval of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, conveyed in his despatch of the 9th September, 1914, is to impose a fee to be aid in respect of private bills.
It was considered to be not unreasonable that such a fee should
be payable especially as the obtaining of a private Ordinance
generally results in a saving of conveyancing and other expenses,
and it was also thought that the existence of such a fee might act
as an automatic check on frivolous applications.
Section 1 is formal,
Section 2 defines the term private bill, the definition being
a combination of terms used in Article 55 of the Standing Orders
of the Legislative Council and in Sir Courtenay Ilbert's Legislative: Methods and Forms (1901), page 189.
In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency
the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and
on His behalf.
Attorney General,
9. 3. 15.
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