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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded.
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HON. MR. SHENTON.—I assume that includes salaries to bring
it into the loan account.
H.E. THE GOVERNOR.-I presume so.
HON. MR. SHENTON.-Otherwise it would not come into the loan account.
THE COLONIAL TREASURER-No.
The motion was agreed to.
MARKET BY-LAWS.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL-Sir, I rise to move that the amendment to the Market by-laws made by the Sanitary Board under section 16 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, on the 8th day of November, be approved. Under section 17 of that Ordinance all by-laws made by the Board are subject to the approval of this Council. The by-law in question forbids spitting in markets.
to.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed
MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE, 1932.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the jurisdiction of magistrates and the procedure and practice before magistrates in relation to offences punishable on summary conviction and to indictable offences and for other purposes." He said: "Sir, I rise to move the first Reading of a Bill to consolidate and amend the law relating to the jurisdiction of magistrates and the procedure and practice before magistrates in relation to offences and for other purposes.
This consolidation Bill is linked with two other consolidation Bills on to-day's agenda, the Summary Offences and Police Force Bills, in all of which provision is made for bringing them into force on the same day, the 1st January, 1933. This is because the draftsman of the Bills in arranging the consolidations has trans- ferred certain provisions from one enactment to another in which their inclusion seemed more appropriate. One of such transfers is referred to in paragraph (1) of the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons. That Memorandum and the Table of Correspondence draw attention to all the small amendments to the existing law which are to be found in the Bill.”
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time.
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