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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE, 1934.
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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the second reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the Registration of Births and Deaths."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a second time.
Council then went into Committee to consider the Bill clause by
clause.
Clause 30.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.-There should be a marginal note to this clause which should read: "Amendment of the Vaccina- tion Ordinance, 1923.” I move that it be inserted.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.
Second Schedule:
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. I have to propose one or two minor amendments in the Second Schedule which have been found necessary since the first reading. In Form No. 4, on Page 12 in the 6th line of the English version insert the word "to" in place of the word "of" after the word "insusceptibility," and for the Chinese version at the bottom of the page I beg to propose the substitution of the revised translation which I will hand to the Clerk and copies of which have been circulated to the Chinese members of the Council.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to,
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.-On Page 16, Form No. 15 I would refer to a clerical or typographical error in the 7th line thereof. Form No. 11 should read Form No. 14.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.-Finally, on Page 18 in the Notice (to be endorsed on the back of the certificate) paragraph 4 of the details which the informant must be prepared to state accurate- ly to the Registrar reads "The rank, profession or occupation of deceased." The words I propose to be inserted there are "and nationality so far as is known," after the word "occupation." These words were added to the form in Ordinance 26 of 1931. When this Ordinance was originally drafted this addition appears to have been overlooked. So the form will now read "rank, profession or occupation, and nationality as far as i known."
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and this was agreed to.
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