HONG KONG.
No. 3 or 1940,
I assent.
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1. Col. Northern
Governor.
15th March, 1940.
An Ordinance to amend the Incitement to Disaffection Ordin-
ance, 1930,
[15th March, 1940.]
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 Incitement to Short title. Disaffection Amendment Ordinance, 1940.
2.-(1) Sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Incitement Amendment to Disaffection Ordinance, 1939, is amended-
(a) by the substitution of the words "* judge of the Supreme Court" for the word "magistrate" in the first line thereof;
(b) by the insertion of the words of a rank not lower than that of inspector" after the words "police officer" in the sixth line thereof;
(e) by the insertion of the words "together with any other persons named in the warrant and any other police officers" after the words ** the warrant" in the seventh line thereof;
(d) by the insertion of the words at any time within one month from the date of the warrant
"after the word place" in the eighth line thereof;
(e) by the deletion of the words "with such assistance as may be necessary, and" after the word "place" in the cighth line thereof;
() by the addition of the following provisos at the end thereof-
: Provided that-
(a) a search warrant shall only be issued in respect of an offence suspected to have been committed within the three months prior to the laying of the information thereof; and
of Ordia-
anca No. 9 of 1839, 8, 3.