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HONG KONG

No. 24 of 1974

I assent.

Enclosure No. 1

M, N.L.

Governor.

9th May, 1974,

An Ordinance to amend the Estate Duty Ordinance.

[1st April, 1974]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Estate Duty (Amend- Short title ment) Ordinance 1974 and shall be deemed to have come into and com- operation on the 1st day of April 1974.

2.

Welcoment.

Section 3(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended in Amendment the definition of "applicable Schedule" by deleting "means the of section 3. Tenth Schedule" and substituting the following→

"but before the 1st day of April 1974 means the Tenth Schedule, and in the case of persons dying on or after the 1st day of April 1974 means the Eleventh Schedule",

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