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No.290.
My Lord,
GOVERNMENT HOUSE,
2 J
HONG KONG,
18th June, 1931.
I have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of Your Lordship's despatch No.126 of 28th
April, 1931, informing me that His Majesty will not
be advised to exercise his power of disallowance in
respect of Ordinance No.1 of 1931, "an Ordinance to
provide for the registration of nurses for the sick".
2. With reference to the points raised in
the second and third paragraphs of Your Lord ship' s
despatch, section 6 (1) of the Ordinance follows the
procedure adopted generally in this Colony of
substituting the Governor in Council for the High Court where an English act allows an appeal to the
High Court. Section 6 of the Midwives Ordinance No.
22 of 1910 furnishes an example of this practice
which possesses certain advantages inasmuch as the procedure is simple and need not involve the employ- ment of legal assistance.
3. The penalty provided under section 9 (2) for wilful falsification of the register follows the
usual
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
LORD PASSFIELD,
&C.,
&C.,
&C.