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Table
OF CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN THE CLAUSES OF THE BILL AND
THE PROVISIONS OF THE EXISTING LAW,—Continued.
Clauses
Sections or
Sections of Ordinance
of
Onlinauce
bili,
No. 16 of 1901.
Nos. 14 of 1914 and 1 of 1915.
Regulations,
29
Sebedale, Article 21.
30
31
32
33
3:1
Schedule, Arlicle 21,
Note at the
end of the First Schedule,
Enclosure 2.
Caky
198
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong...4th.M.A.Y...............491-1921.
35
P. 571
36
Schedale, Article 8.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No................
.....................................................of Ádr 1921.
37
Schedule, Article 31,
Note.
38
21
39
40
41
*
1.
42
31
43
17, 18, 28, 29, 30
44
4
+
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
an Ordinance to amend
the law
relating
to stamp duty,
45
NOTE: The pages referred to in the fourth column of the above table are the pages of the Regulations of Hongkong, 1914.
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is
one
which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
2.
The objects of this ordinance are (a) to increase the revenue
from stamp duties, (b) to facilitate the collection of those duties
and prevent evasion, and (c) to correct various defects in the present
law which have long been known to exist.
3.
The Ordinance is based as far as possible on the United King- dom Stamp Acts, references to which appear in the marginal notes throughout.
There is, however, one great difference between the
Acts and this Ordinance.
In the United Kingdom, speaking generally
and