A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance,
1915.
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 Asiatic Emigra- Short title.
tion Amendment Ordinance, 1947, and shall be read as one
with the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, hereinafter Ordinance
referred to as the principal Ordinance.
No. 30 of 1915.
of section 33 of the
2. Section 33 of the principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment
amended by the substitution of the word "four" for the word principal
"two" appearing in the second line thereof.
Ordinance.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to provide for an increase of the
fee payable for a passage broker's licence required by the Asiatic
Emigration Ordinance, 1915.
J. B. GRIFFIN, Attorney General.
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