Enclosure 2.
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ATTORNEY
GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong, 30th September,
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 21 of 1922.
1922.
1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
an Ordinance to consolidate and simplify the law relating to
perjury and kindred offences, and I am of opinion that the
Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's In-
structions.
2. The Ordinance is founded on the Perjury Act, 1911, 1 and
2 Geo.5, c.6.
3. Section 2 is practically a copy of section 31 of the
Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, as it will read when it has
been amended by the Evidence Ordinance, 1922.
It is re-
peated here because the use in certain sections of this ordi-
nance of the term "affirmation" might be used to found an argu-
ment that an intention contrary to the general intention of
The English the Interpretation Ordinance should be assumed. Perjury Act contains a similar interpretation clause although the English Interpretation Act contains a provision similar to section 31 of the Hongkong Interpretation Ordinance.
4.
Apart from obvious adaptations, such as the substitution of "Hongkong" for "England", and the substitution of dollars
for pounds, the principal variations between the Act and the
Ordinance are as follows.