Previous licences
deemed
not to
authorize distribu- tion of visual image.
(Vol. IX,
p. 216).
2
(b) the addition after the definition of "telegraph line" of the
following new definition-
**"television" means any telegraphic communication of transient visual images by wire or wireless;"'.
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3. Nothing contained in any licence granted under the principal Ordinance before the coming into operation of this Ordinance other than an experimental station licence granted under regulation 2 of the Radiocommunication Regulations shall be deemed to authorize or to have authorized the holder of such licence to distribute visual images by means of wires connected to the premises of persons in the Colony,
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 5th day of August, 1956.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretarial 5/1036/53)
HỒNG KÔNG
No. 41 of 1950.
i assent.
Baid
Officer Administering the Government.
9th August, 1956.
An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates Ordinance,
Chapter 227.
[roth August, 1956.]
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 Magistrates (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance, 1956.
2. Section 37 of the Magistrates Ordinance (hereinafter Repeal and referred to as the principal Ordinance) is repealed and replaced replace by the following-
"Applica-
Lion of
money
found on
defaulter
37. (1) Where a defendant is fined and the same is not forthwith paid, the magistrate may order the defendant to be searched.
ment of section 37. (Cap. 227)