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Amendment

of section 3.

Amendment

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(d) by the deletion in subsection (2) of the full stop at the end of item (7) and the substitution therefor of a semi-colon; and (e) by the addition at the end of subsection (2) of the following

new item-

"(m) public cars, that is to say cars which stand or ply for hire and are used to carry passengers at separate and distinct fares within the Colony on a recognized and predetermined route or for a recognized and predetermined purpose.".

3. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the dele- tion of the full stop at the end of subsection (2) and the addition thereto of the following-

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"and to charge such fee as may be prescribed by such regulation for the doing of any such thing or the exercise of any such function.""

4.

Section 5A of the principal Ordinance is amended by the of section 3A. deletion of subsection (2) and the substitution therefor of the following-

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*(2) Any regulation made in exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (1) shall be subject to the approval of the Legislative Council.",

S. (1) A regulations made beretofore under the principal Ordinance making provision in any criminal proceedings for a con- travention thereof for-

(a) the person charged with such contravention to prove certain

facts; or

(b) certain facts to be presumed, with or without the proof of other

facts, until the contrary is proved.

shall be deemed to have been made in accordance with the provisions of section 54 of the principal Ordinance and to have been approved by the Legislative Council,

(2) Any goods vehicles which at the date of coming into operation of this Ordinance is registered either as a private goods vehicle or as a public goods vehicle shall be deemed to be registered as a goods vehicle.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 25th day of November, 1959,

Deputy Clerk of Councils,

(Secretariat GR33/3231/54)

HONG KONG

No. 43 of 1959.

1 assent.

Стакан Вандеву

Officer Administering the Government.

26th November, 1959.

An Ordinance to authorize and validate the use of the District Land Office. Tsuen Wan, in the New Territories as a New Territories Land Office.

[27th November, 1959.]

WHEREAS by section 10 of the New Territories Ordinance it is Preamble. provided that where in any Ordinance the expression "Land Office" or "District Land Office" is used it shall include such places as the Governor in Council may by order from time to time approve as a New Territories Land Office:

AND WHEREAS an office known and used as the District Land Office, Tsuen Wan, in the New Territories has been used with effect from the 1st day of September, 1959, in all respects as if the Governor in Council had approved the use of such office as a New Territories Land Office in accordance with the said section 10:

AND WHEREAS such office was used in the absence of the said approval of the Governor in Council:

NOW, THEREFORE, BE it coacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-