ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
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R 18 AUG 20
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Ilongkong...... 26th June,
19120.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE N...............
........of 19120,
1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to societies.
and 1 am of opinion that the Ordinance is which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
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2. The object of this Ordinance is to repeal the Socie-
ties Ordinance, 1911, which has not proved satisfactory in prao-
tice, and to substitute a simpler system based on the Triad and
Unlawful Societies Ordinance, 1887.
3. The Societies Ordinance, 1911, failed to give the in-
creased control expected, it probably drove several undesirable
societies underground, in some cases it gave a fictitious respec-
tability to doubtful societies on the border line, it supplied a
technical defence to any action brought by an unregistered society,