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HONG KONG
No.43 or 1948.
I gasent.
Mhanthan
Governor.
26th August, 1948.
An Ordinance to regulate and control prospecting and mining for radio-active minerals and the export thereof and for purposes connected therewith.
[27th August, 1948.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Radio-Active Minerals short title. Ordinance, 1948.
2. In this Ordinance-
To attempt to export
means to do any act preparatory to or for the purpose of exportation, not being an act connected with an application for a permit to export;
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Export means to take or cause to be taken out of the Colony by land, air or water, and includes the export of anything taken or sent from any country and brought into the Colony by land, air or water (whether or not landed or transhipped in the Colony) for the sole purpose of being carried to another country either by the same or another conveyance;
"* licence
means a licence issued under the provisions
of section 3 of this Ordinance;
mine" with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, includes all operations for the intentional winning
or obtaining of any radio-active mineral;
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*
permit means a permit issued under the provisiona
of section b of this Ordinance;
** prospect "with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, meats to search for any radio-active mineral and
Interpre-
sation.