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Explanatory Note,

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

to indicate their general purport)

These regulations provide for the exemption from certain provisions of the Buildings Ordinance, 1955 and from the regulations made under that Ordinanc of building works for the crection, alteration or demolition of, or which are otherwise connected with, specified buildings in the New Territories. The build ings which are exempted under paragraph (1) of regulation 2 may, generally speaking, be described as houses of a simple type, normally occupied by villager, and the boildings which are exempted under paragraph (2) thereof are building used solely for agricultural purposes.

(Secretariat BL6/736/48)

PROCLAMATION

No. 11 of 1960.

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Alham

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Governor.

By His Excellency the Governor.

WHEREAS by Article 4 of the Hong Kong (Coinage) Order, 1936, (bereinafter referred to as the Order) it is provided that if any new coins ace coined they shall, from a date fixed by the Governor in a Proclama- tion made with the approval of the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury and a Secretary of State setting forth in a Schedule particulars of the metal, standard weight, remedy allowance and, in the case of silver coins, fineness, and provided that they have not been dealt with in any manner prohibited by law, be legal tender in the case of coins of denominations of not less than one dollar for the payment of an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars, and in the case of coins of other denominations for the payment of an amount not exceeding two dollars:

NOW THEREFORE I, ROBERT BROWN BLACK, Knight Com- mander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred by the said Article 4 of the Order with