Enclosure No.2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong, ...
14th June,..1935.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 25 of 1935.
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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance
intituled
An Ordinance to provide for the segregation and treat-
ment of lepers.
2. This Ordinance repeals the Lepers Ordinance, 1910,
and substitutes a new Ordinance in its place. It results
from the Report of the Committee on Lepers dated the
11th January, 1935, which was presented to the Legis-
lative Council as Sessional Paper No.1 on the 14th Feb-
ruary, 1935.
3. By section 2 the Governor in Council may appoint
places to be leper settlements. The former provision in
section 2 of Ordinance No.2 of 1910 forbidding private
asylums has not been re-enacted as it is intended to
entrust the management of leper settlements to suitable
missionary or philanthropic bodies.
4. Section 3 enables the Governor in Council to make
regulations for the better carrying out of the provisions
of the Ordinance, and for the well-being of the leper
settlements and the inmates thereof.
5.
This Ordinance does not expressly make leprosy a