Enclosure 2.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong.22nd.Senterher/441/,1921
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No......17.....................f/XV. 1921.
1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
an Ordinance to provide for the reclamation of the foreshore and
sea bed off Praya East, Victoria, in the Colony of Hongkong,
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
on Praya East.
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2. This Ordinance embodies the termsof a provisional and informal
agreement entered into between the Government and the frontagers
The bill was submitted to the frontagers before
introduction and was approved by them.
Certain details in the
Ordinance have been adopted from the Praya Reclamation Ordinance,
1889, Ordinance No. 16 of 1889.
3.
Section 2: The "authorised works" have been defined widely
and in detail in order to make it clear that all claims for damage a
or compensation are excluded(see sub-section (5) of section 2).