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Amendowent of section 14.

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(b) the date on which the census is to be taken; (c) the purpose for which the census is required:

and

(4)

the date by which all completed forms and returns collected or received by census officers for the census and all copies thereof shall be destroyed by fire.".

3. Section 14 of the principal Ordinance is amended— (a) by deleting the colon where it occurs after "Ordinance"

and substituting a full stop; and

(b) by deleting the proviso.

Amendment of aection 15.

4.

Amendment of aeclion 19.

Addition of new sections 19A and 198.

Section 15 of the principal Ordinance is amended- (a) in paragraph (a), by deleting "or" at the end thereof

and substituting a comma; and

(b) by deleting paragraph (b).

5. Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended—

(a) in paragraph (b), by inserting at the end thereof the

following

(b) in paragraph (c), by deleting *: or" at the end thereof

and substituting a comma; and

(c) by deleting paragraph (d).

6.

The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 19, the following new sections-

"Offence to publish Information knowingly received in contraven- tion of the Ordinance.

Restriction

on publica.

tion.

19A. Any person who publishes or communicates any information which to his knowledge has been disclosed in contravention of this Ordinance to any other person shall be guilty of an offence.

19B. (1) Subject to the provisions of subsections (2) and (3), any person who publishes or shows to any person not employed in the execution of a duty under this Ordinance-

(a) any individual return, or part thereof, made

for the purposes of this Ordinance:

(b) any individual answer given to any question

put for the purposes of this Ordinance;

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(c) any particulars comprised in any return made for the purposes of this Ordinance, or any answer given to any question pur for the purposes of this Ordinance which particulars are so arranged in a report, abstract or other document as to enable identification of any person, undertaking or business.

shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1) it shall not be an offence to publish such partic- ulars as are referred to in paragraph (c) of subsection (1) where such particulars enable identification merely by reason of the fact that they relate to an undertaking or business within a particular classification in the report, abstract or other document, so however that in no case shall such particulars enable identification of the costs of production, the capital employed, or profits arising in, any such undertaking or business.

(3) Nothing in this section shall be taken to probibit the production of such evidence as may be necessary for the purpose of any proceedings in- stituted for an offence against this Ordinance.".

Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is amended in paragraph (6) by deleting “or (d) of section 19" and substituting the following-

"of section 19 or section 19A or 198TM.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 6th day of May, 1970.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

Amendment of section 20.