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Amendment

of section 24A.

Amendmcal

of section 25.

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(B) no witness shall be obliged or permitted to disclose the name and address of any informer under this Ordinance or to state any matter which might lead to his discovery; and

(c) if any books, documents or papers which are evidence or liable to inspection in any civil or criminal proceedings whatsoever under this Ordin- ance contained any entry in which any informer is named or described or which might lead to his discovery, the Court or magistrate shall cause all such passages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far as may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery but no further; Provided that if in any criminal proceedings under this Ordinance the Court or magistrate after full inquiry into the case is satisfied that the strict enforcement of the provi- sions of this section would be likely to cause a miscarriage of justice, the Court or magistrate may require the produc tion of the original information and may permit inquiry and may require full disclosure concerning the informer.”.

17. Section 24A of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion in subsection (1) of the words "the rescission of the exemption from registration of a society under subsection (5) of section 3 or the cancellation of the registration of a society under subsection (5) of section " and the substitution therefor of the following-

"the cancellation of the registration or of the exemption from registration of a society under section $B",

18. Section 25 of the principal Ordinance is amended-- (a) by the insertion after the figures "25" of the following-

*(1)":

(b) by the deletion of paragraph (f) and the substitution therefor

of the following-

"

the matters which must be contained in the rules of any society which is registered or exempted from registration in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance:

() any fees payable in accordance with the provisions of

this Ordinance;";

(c) by the addition at the end thereof of the following-

"(2) Any rule made under this Ordinance may provide that a contravention thereof shall be an offence and may provide penalties for such offences not exceeding

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a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months.".

19. The principal Ordinance is amended by the addition at the Addition of and thereof of the following-

(CAD. 32).

(Cap. 13).

(Cap. 64.

<3 < 1932. Second Schedule).

(p. 153).

“SCHEDULE. Persons to which the Ordinance does not apply.

Schedule.

[s, 2.]

(1) Any company registered under the Companies Ordinance. (2) Any co-operative society registered under the Co-operative

Societies Ordinance.

(3) Any trade union registered under the Trade Unions and

Trade Disputes Ordinance.

(4) Any pupils' association registered under the Education

Regulations, 1952.

(9) Any company or association constituted under Royal Charter, Royal Letters Patent, any Imperial Act or any Ordinance,

(6) Any company, association or partnership, consisting of not more than twenty persons, formed for the sole pur- pose of carrying on any lawful business and registered under any other Ordinance.

(7) Any Lodge of Freemasons regularly constituted under any of the registered governing bodies of Freemasons in the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland.

(8) Any Chinese temple registered under the Chinese

Temples Ordinance.”.

20. Nothing in the provisions of this Ordinance shall affect the Saving. registration of any society or the grant to any society of exemption from registration under the principal Ordinance if such registration or exemp- tion was valid and had not been cancelled or rescinded at the date of commencement of this Ordinance.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 19th day of July, 1961, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill,

(Secretariat CR37/3231/47)

سلام الله

Clerk of Councile.