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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong,...22nd December...1933.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. .3Q............of 1933.
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1. 1 have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an
Ordinance to Provide for the Establishment of a Naval
Volunteer Defence Force and I am of opinion that the
Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's
instructions.
2. The first 16 sections of this Ordinance, the object
of which is to provide for the establishment of a
Volunteer Naval Defence Force, are from a model prepared
at Home for enactment by the legislatures of this end
other Colonies.
3. Section 17 is to make it clear that offences under
the Ordinance, some of which are not confined to members
of the Force, may be dealt with summarily by a Magistrate under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932.
4. Section 18, which is derived from section 25 of
Ordinance No.10 of 1933, makes special provision for the
storage of dangerous goods belonging to the Force.
5.
6.
Section 19 amends certain existing Ordinances.
In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His
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