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Amendment

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of section 9.

(a)

Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by-

the deletion of subsection (1) and the substitution therefor of the following-

"(D) No person shall collect, sell or have in his possession or be a party to the collection or sale, of any pearl oyster:

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Provided that nothing in this subsection shall apply

(a) any oyster of the genus Pteria which measures sixty-five millimeters for more when measured through a plane drawn at right angles to the hinge.

(b) an oyster of the genus Pinctada where a person is in possession of a licence granted under sec. tion 6;

(c) the collection or sale of pearl oysters of any size which have been cultivated under a licence granted under section 6."; and

(6) the addition after subsection (2) of the following new sub-

section—

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"(3) It shall be a defence to any proceedings for an offence against subsection (2) to prove that the pearl oysters in relation to which those proceedings are brought were not found within the waters of the Colony.”.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 6th day of May, 1959,

Chapa

HONG KONG

No. 15 or 1959.

1 assent.

Довгаст

Governor.

21st May, 1959.

Au Ordinance to amend the Societies Ordinance, Chapter 151.

[22nd May, 1959.)

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat CRS/2586/56)

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice andİ consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance. 1959.

2. The Societies Ordinance is amended by the addition after Addition section 24 of the following new section-

"Poast of Registrar to suborize winding up.

of new

section 24A.

24A. (1) Notwithstanding the rescission of the exemp. (C»n. 151) tion from registration of a society under subsection (5) of section 5 or the cancellation of the registration of a society under subsection (6) of section 5 or the dissolution of a society under section 16, the Registrar or an assistant registrar, on the application of any person, may by writing