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HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
4. The regulations also provide for the making, keeping and furnishing of records and reports of the examinations and of all work done in consequence thereof.
ASIATIC EMIGRATION AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1938.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915." He said: The Objects and Reasons for this Bill are also set out in the Memorandum attached to the Bill.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-
1. The object of this amending Bill is to exclude the sick bay or hospital of emigrant ships licensed under the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, from the passenger deck space required to be measured for the purpose of determining the number of emigrants to be carried in such ships.
2. The amendment is necessary in order to allow for the proper segregation of sick emigrants, particularly those suffering from infectious or contagious disease, and to prevent the overcrowding which necessarily results under the existing law from such segregation.
3. Clause of the Bill effects the amendment by substituting the words "shall not be included" for the words "shall be included" in the third line of regulation 4 (7) in the Fourth Schedule and the corres- pending regulation in the Sixth Schedule to the principal Ordinance.
4. Clause of the Bill is the suspending clause necessitated by the proviso to section 2 of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855,
(18 & 19 Vict., c. 104).
EMPIRE PREFERENCE AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1938.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Empire Preference Ordinance, 1932." He said: The Objects and Reasons for this Bill are set out in the Memorandum attached to the Bill which Honourable Members will see is merely to correct the position arising from the separation of Burma from India.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.
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