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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 283.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 6th October, 1936-
[No. 28: 10.9.36.-2.]
A BILL
Short title.
Amendment
No. 7 of
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Coinage Offences
Ordinance, 1865.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Coinage Offences (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.
2. Section 8 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as of Ordinance amended by section 3 (2) (h) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution of the words "three years" for the words "one year" at the end thereof.
1865, s. 8 as amended by Ordin- ance No. 20
of 1936,
s. 3 (2) h).
Amendment of Ordinance No. 7 of
1865, s. 9 as amended by No. 20 of 1936,
s. 3 (2) (h).
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 7 of
3. Section 9 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (i) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution of the words "four years" for the words "two years" at the end thereof.
4. Section 12 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (k) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution as amended of the words "three years" for the words "one year" at the
end thereof.
1865, s. 12,
by Ordin-
ance No. 20
of 1936,
s. 3 (2) (k).
Amendment
of Ordinance No. 7 of
1865, s. 14, as amended by Ordin-
ance No. 20 of 1936,
s. 3 (2) (n).
5. Section 14 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (n) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution of the words "three years" for the words "one year" at the end thereof.
Objects and Reasons.
1. By section 8 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (h) of Ordinance No. 20 of 1936, uttering false or counterfeit coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit is punishable with imprison- ment for any term not exceeding one year, and by section 9 such uttering when attended by certain circumstances of aggravation is punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.