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Enclosure No. 2.

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THE BANK NOTES AND CERTIFICATES OF INDEBTEDNESS ORDINANCE,

1946.

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Explanatory observations in accordance

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The Ordinance was enacted on the instructions of the

Secretary of State.

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In the absence of the necessary papers some difficulty

was encountered in setting out the Objects and Reasons to the Bill.

No query thereon however was raised in Legislative Council.

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The date 25th December 1941 was preferred to the 1st

January 1942 in Section 2 of the Ordinance.

The Banks were actually

open until the 24th December and on the 26th December, 1941, the

Japanese required the Banks to hand over certain fairly substantial amounts in notes but not from unissued note stocks.

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In Section 3 the date 1st April 1946 has been substituted

for 1st January 1946 as the Colony's financial year runs from April to

March.

Georgestrickland

Acting Attorney General.

22nd August, 1946.