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Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended

to indicate their general purport).

Regulation 21(4) of the principal regulations gives power to a com- petent authority (at present the Postmaster General) to regulate the use of wireless transmitting apparatus, while regulation 91 of the principal regulations empowers the Governor to prohibit the sale and use of wireless receiving apparatus. It is considered desirable that control over wireless apparatus in general should lie in a single authority, and these regulationa accordingly seek to give power to a competent authority to regulate the sale and use of all wireless apparatus Including radar.

2. Competent authority" is defined for the purposes of regulation 21 of the principal regulations as including a person authorized by the competent Authority. This definition is appropriate only for the purposes of the sub-regulations mentioned in regulation 3(a) of these regulatione, which amends the principal regulations"accordingly.

(Secretariat D/SC/W)

STAMP ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 117).

STAMP (BANK AUTHORIZATION) (No. 4) Order, 1955.

In exercise of the power vested in me by section 15 of the Stamp Ordinance, I hereby make the following Order-

ORDER

1. This Order may be cited as the Stamp (Bank Authoriza- Citation. tion) (No. 4) Order, 1955.

2. The bank specified in the Schedule to this Order is hereby Specified

bank authorized with effect from 1st August, 1955, to compound för the

authorized payment of duty on unstamped cheques subject to the conditions to com- stated in paragraphs (a), (b), and (c) of subsection (1) of section 15 for the

pound

of the Ordinance.

SCHEDULE.

The Hong Kong Chinese Bank Ltd,

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14th July, 1955.

(Secretariat 18/2321/40)

Амин Слонке

Financial Secretary.

payment of certain duty.