1962-HKRS29-8-29_Part01 — Page 7

Short title.

Validation

cement of Table I.

and Mates) Rules and referred to in the said Merchant Ship- ping (Masters and Mates Certificates) Rules, 1953, as “Table I made under section 118(3)" of the said Ordinance;

(c) the said section 6 has never conferred power to make the said Merchant Shipping (Masters and Mates Certificates) Rules, 1953, but confers power to make the said Table I referred to therein;

(d) the said Table I does not purport to be made in exercise of the powers contained in the said section 6 and the said Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1953, has never contained any section "118(3)" as aforesaid;

(e) it is desirable to remove doubt arising from the aforesaid circumstances as to the validity of the said rules entitled the Certificates of Competency (Masters and Mates) Rules and referred to as the said Table I:

Now, THEREFROE, BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong. with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Shipping (Certificates of Competency (Masters and Mates) Rules) (Validation and Commencement) Ordinance, 1962.

2. The Certificates of Competency (Masters and Mates) Rules and commen- (hereinafter referred to as Table I) shall be deemed for all purposes to have been duly made on the 31st day of July, 1953, by the Governor in (14 of 1953). Council in exercise of the powers conferred by section 6 of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance. 1953, and to bave come into operation on the commencemeat of that Ordinance,

Proof of copy of Table I.

Revocation of

3. A copy of Table I purporting to be printed by the Government Printer shall, for all purposes until the contrary is proved, be deemed ta be an authentic copy of such Table I as enacted.

4. The Merchant Shipping (Masters and Matcs Certificates) Rules,

the Merchant 1953, are revoked. Shipping

(Masters and Mares

Certificates)

Rules, 1953.

(G.N.A. 108/53).

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 14th day of February, 1962, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

(Secretariat GR4/5061/54)

бужа

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

HONG KONG

No. 4 of 1962.

I assent.

188an

Governor.

15th February, 1962.

An Ordinance to amend the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, Chapter 134. [16th February, 1962.]

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 Dangerous Drugs (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance, 1962.

2. Section 17 of the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance is amended in Amendment subsection (2) by the deletion of the word "shall" and the substitution of section 17. therefor of the following-

(Cap. 134).

"shall, except where some other penalty therefor is prescribed by regulations made under section 11,".

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 14th day of February, 1962, and is found by me to be a true-am correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat CR5/3281/51)