Repeal and replace- ment of
section 13.
Repeal and replace- ment of section 10.
Amendment of the Fourth Schedule.
4.
Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section-
"Burden of proof.
5.
13. Where in any complaint or information in respect of an offence against section 7 or 8 it is alleged that any mammal, bird or thing was killed or taken in the Colony, it shall be presumed until the contrary is proved that such mammal, bird or thing was so killed or taken."*
Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following section-
"Special permits.
16. Notwithstanding any of the provisions of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Governor, upon such conditions as he may think fit, to grant to any person a permit in writing for alt or any of the following purposes-
(a) to hunt and kill or take any mammal or bird
specified in the permit;
(6) to take the nest or eggs of any wild bird so
specified;
(c) to be in possession of any mammal or bird
or any nest or eggs so specified;
(d) to export any mammal or bird or any nest
or eggs so specified."
6. The Fourth Schedule of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion from the penultimate line of the descrip- tion of Area A of the word "northwesterly" and the substitution therefor of the word "northeasterly"*.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 15th day of December, 1954.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat 7560/451)
HONG KONG
No. 50 of 1954.
| assent.
Governor.
16th December, 1954.
An Ordinance to amend the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance,
[17th December, 1954.]
1933.
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 Workmen's Com- Short title. pensation (Amendment) Ordinance, 1954.
(28 of
2. Section 3 of the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, Amendment 1953 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance), is section 3. amended by the deletion of the semi-colon at the end of the 1953). definition of the words "medical practitioner', and by the inser- tion thereafter of the following-
"or any medical officer of the Armed Forces of the Crown;".