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400
(n)
(0)
s.10 of the Act is omitted as it seemed unnecessary
in Hongkong.
s.12 of the Act is omitted as we have no "penal servi-
tude" here.
For the same reason "penal servitude"
in the Act appears as "imprisonment" in the
throughout.
(p) 88.13 and 14 of the Act are omitted.
(a) 9.16(2) (c) and (d) are omitted.
Ordinance
(r)
8.18(3) of the Act is omitted.
(e)
2. .19(2) of the Act is altered in s.17 (2) of the Ordi-
nance.
(t)
s.18 of the Ordinance improves the form of 8.44 of
Ordinance .4 of 1665, which had been truncated by
Ordinance T. 17 of 1919.
+
s.19 of the ordinance makes an amendment which is con-
(u)
sequential on a repeal in the schedule.
(v)
ss.21 and 22 of the Act are omitted.
5.
Chops are wooden blocks used universally by Chinese firms
for the purpose of authenticating contracts and other commercial
documents. The Chinese attach much importance to their chops.
The term has been included in the definition of "die" in s.2(1)
(D). Section 7(4) (b) of the Ordinance was suggested in the
first instance by a case in which an employee of a ship had had
made a false chop by means of which he proposed to conceal a
Beries of fraude which he intended to commit upon his employer.
He appeared to have committed no offence under the law in force
at the time.
6.
By the repeal of paragraph 13 of the third schedule to the
Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, magistrates are given Jurisdiction
in forgery generally, except where the maximum imprisonment is
for life.