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Enclosure No.2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong 16th October,
193 1.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No
26
of 1931.
1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an Ordinance to amend the law relating to the Registration
of Births and Deaths, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's
instructions.
2. The Registrar General (whose title was changed to Secretary for Chinese Affairs by Ordinance No. 21 of 1913) was Registrar of Births and Deaths under the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, (No.7 of 1896) until 1909 when by the Public Service Transfer of Duties Ordinance (No.15 of 1909) the Head of the Sanitary Department was
substituted.
It is now considered, as a part of the scheme for re-organization of the Medical and Sanitary Services of the Colony, that the Director of those Services should be
the Registrar of Births and Deaths.
Sections 2 and 6 of
this Ordinance accordingly makes the necessary changes in the principal Ordinance and regulations.
As the Medical
and the Sanitary Departments are in the same Building the
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