C. 92622/32 '[No. 21].
No.
HONG KONG.
THE GOVERNOR to THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
(Received 26th August, 1933.)
PROOF.
(Confidential (2).)
SIR,
Government House, Hong Kong, 18th July, 1933. WITH reference to your Confidential despatch of the 7th March, 1933,* I have the honour to submit for your consideration the accompanying Bill to amend the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901.
2. A detailed explanation of the different sections is contained in the objects and reasons
attached to the Bill and in the enclosed memorandum by the Colonial Treasurer.
3. The Bill has been considered and approved by my Executive Council.
I have, &c.,
W. PEEL,
Governor, &c.
Enclosure 1 in No.
[No. 19-23.6.33.-2.]
C.S.O. 2860/26C.
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901. Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Short Title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Defence Contribution Amendment Ordinance, 1933.
Substitution for Ordinance No. 1 of 1901, ss. 2 and 3.
2. Sections 2 and 3 of the Defence Contribution Ordinance, 1901, are repealed and the following sections are substituted :-
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Yearly Contribution for Defence of Colony.
2. A sum equivalent to twenty per centum of the Colonial Revenues shall be appropriated yearly to the Imperial Government as a contribution to the defence of the Colony.
Definition of " Colonial Revenues.'
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3.—(1) The Colonial Revenues for the purposes of this Ordinance shall include, subject to the provisions of Subsections (2), (3), and (4), the gross receipts by the Colony from all sources of revenue.
Exclusion of Certain Revenues.
(2) The following sources of revenue shall be excluded :-
(i) the proceeds of land sales and premia on leases or statutory land grants;
(ii) revenue received from condemned stores;
(iii) contributions received from the Chinese Government for the maintenance of
Gap Rock Lighthouse;
(iy) contributions received for anti-piracy escorts;
(v) over payments recovered in respect of previous years;
(vi) sums transferred to revenue under Colonial Regulation 291 in respect of the
appreciation of investments representing merely book profits;
(vii) profits arising from the appreciation of investments when realised;
(viii) moneys receivable from officers and specially exempted by any Ordinance for Widows and Orphans Pensions from contribution under this Ordinance;
(ix) moneys, dividends, interest or the produce of investments specially exempted by any
Loan Ordinance from contribution under this Ordinance;
* No. C. 92622/32 [No. 20].
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8/34. (18309) M. & S. Ltd.
Straits Defence Co.-Gp. 6. 131/2963.
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