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Repeal and replacement of section 4.

Addition at new section 4A.

Amendment

3. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Licensing of tally- clerks.

4. (1) Subject to the provisions of this Ordin- ance the Director may issue or renew licences under this Ordinance on payment of the fee prescribed therefor, and any such licence may contain such conditions as the Director may see fit to impose.

(a) Licences issued under this Ordinance shall be annual licences commencing from and renewable upon the 1st day of January in each year.

(3) The Director shall keep a register of licences issued under this Ordinance in which he shall cause to be entered full particulars of every licence and of the issue and any renewal, cancellation or suspension of every licence."

4. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition after section 4 of the following new section-

"Revocation and Bus- pension of licences.

A. The Director may cancel or suspend any Lallyclerk's licence if it appears to him, after giving the holder thereof an opportunity of being heard, that such tallyclerk has been guilty of any contraven- tion of this Ordinance or of any regulation made thereunder or that he has been guilty of any mis- conduct which in the opinion of the Director renders him unsuitable to carry out the duties of a tallyclerk, or that he has committed a breach of any condition contained in the licence, and a licence If so cancelled shall cease to have effect, and if so suspended shall cease to have effect for the period for which it is suspended."

5. Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the of section 7, addition after subsection (2) of the following new subsections-

*(3) No person shall, without lawful authority, make any mark or entry upon, or erase, cancel or alter any mark or entry contained in, or otherwise deface a tallyclerk's licence: Penalty: a fine of one thousand dollars.

(4) No person shall without lawful authority or reason- able excuse have in his possession any tallyclerk's licence in respect of which an offence against subsection (3) has been committed: Penalty: a line of one thousand dollars.

(5) No person holding a tallyclerk's licence, armband or badge issued under this Ordinance shall transfer such licence, armband or badge to any other person: Penalty: a fine of one thousand dollars."

8. The principal Ordinance is attended by the addition Addition after section S of the following new section-

of new

section 2.

"Regula- tions.

#. The Governor in Council may by regulation prescribe or provide for-

(a) the manner in which application for tally- clerks' licences shall be made, and the forms of and the fees to be paid for such licences; (b) the issue of armbands and badges required

to be worn under this Ordinance;

(c) generally carrying into effect the provisions

of this Ordinance."

*. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is repealed.

Repeal of Schedule.

Passed the Legislative Council of Flong Kong, this 20th day of December, 1954.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat 36/2061/46)