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Enclosure 2.
398
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong....DA...............191 1922.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No............................................................of 191 1922.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an 11-
Kindred cffences,
-nce to consolidate, simplify, and amend the law relating to forgery and/
and I
8111
of opinion that the Ordinance is
one
which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
The object of this Ordinance is to introduce the provisions or
glish Forgery Act, 1913, 3 and 4.Gec. 5, c.27. ence clerely follows that Act, and as the Torgery
Ordinance,
As the Ordi-
1860 wae best
n the English. Forgery Act, 1666, 24 and 25 Vict. c.98, it has not been thought necessary to prepare a tale of correspondence between the sec- The prepa- tions of the Ordinance and those of the former Ordinance. Petion of such a table in the present case would have been a matter of
cwing to ...e difficulty, and the table would not have been of great use, the considerable rearrangements of provisions which have been made.
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