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Amend.

ment of

Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the section 20. deletion in subsection (1) of the words "in each year" and the

substitution therefor of the following-

Amend-

meat of section 26.

Amend-

ment of section $1.

"1956, and during the month of November in each alternate year thereafter'',

9.

Section 25 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion of paragraph (a) of subsection (1) and the substitution therefor of the following-

**(a) to conduct such ordinary elections as may be required to fill vacancies caused by elected members ceasing

to hold office in accordance with subsection (2) of section 4; and".

10. Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion in subsection (1) of the word "four" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"seven".

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of January, 1956.

HOHE KONG

No. 2 OF 1956.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat 1/1146/53)

I assent.

Mahersrotam

overnor.

26th January, 1956.

An Ordinance tu amend the Gambling Ordinance, Chapter 148.

[1st March, 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 Gambling (Amend ment) Ordinance, 1936, and shall come into operation on the first day of March, 1956.

Stort title and com-

mencement.

4. Subsection (1) of section 2 of the Gambling Ordinance Amendment (bereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended by-

(a) the insertion, after the word "Ordinance" in the first

place where it occurs, of the following-

2.

of section

(Cap. 148).

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unless the context otherwise requires";