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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
The effect of this Ordinance is to delete from the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902, those provisions which applied penal sanctions to labour engagements. The relations of employer and employed are left to be governed by the ordinary law of contract but the summary procedure before a magistrate, in respect of wages and breach of contract, provided by the principal Ordinance, is retained in the new and abbreviated section 12.
MILITARY
STORES (EXPORTATION)
ORDINANCE, 1932.
AMENDMENT
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance, 1862." He said.-The object of this Bill is explained in the short memorandum attached to it.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
1. This Ordinance repeals section 6 of the principal Ordinance, No. 1 of 1862, and re-enacts it with the substitution of the words "under the powers conferred by the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council of the 26th day of October, 1896, or any Order of His Majesty in Council amending or substituted for the same" for the words "under the powers conferred by sub-clause 9 of clause III of the Order of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria in Council of the 26th day of October, 1896, as amended by the Order of His Majesty in Council of the 28th day of August, 1914."
2. Section 14 of the Interpretation Ordinance, No. 31 of 1911, provides that where any Ordinance repeals and re-enacts, with or without modification, any provision of a former Ordinance, references in any other Ordinance to the provisions so repealed, shall, unless the contrary intention appears, be construed as references to the provisions so re-enacted.
3. An Order of His Majesty in Council is not an Ordinance. Moreover, the reference to the Amending Order in Council of 1914, was inserted in Ordinance No. 1 of 1862 by Ordinance No. 3 of 1915; but since then an amending Order in Council of 1916
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