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volume by the Government Printers. The forty-three Ordinances comprised two appropriation, one replacement, two incorporation, eleven consolidation, twenty-one amendment, and six Ordinances which were new to the Colony.
2. The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 29) applied a sum not exceeding $27,585,142 to the public service for the year 1933, and Ordinance No. 25 appropriated a supplementary sum of $1,818,307.78 to defray the charges of the year 1931.
3. The replacement Ordinance was the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance (No. 6) which is closely modelled on the English law and the Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 47, with only such modification as were considered necessary to suit local conditions.
4. Ordinance No. 16 incorporated the directors for the time being of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong, and Ordinance No. 17 incorporated the members for the time being of the Council of St. Stephen's College, Hong Kong. These Ordinances followed the usual lines adopted in such cases.
5. The following Ordinances, viz. Estate Duty (No. 3), Opium (No. 7), Pensions (No. 21), Factories and Workshops (No. 27), Dangerous Drugs (No. 31), Police Force (No. 37), Prisons (No. 38), Companies (No. 39), Summary Offences (No. 40), Magistrates (No. 41), and Registration of United Kingdom Patents (No. 42) consolidated and in some cases amended the existing law on these subjects. Of these, the Pensions Ordinance (No. 21) is based on the recent pension enactments of similar Colonies, and replaces the former procedure under which pensions, retired allowances and gratuities in respect of the public service were granted by order and in accordance with the directions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Companies Ordinance (No. 39) enacts the provisions of the Companies Act, 1929, (19 & 20 Geo. V. c. 23) as far as they are applicable to local circumstances, and incorporates certain local provisions formerly in force. In the Police Force Ordinance (No. 37), the Summary Offences Ordinance (No. 40), and the Magistrates Ordinance (No. 41), certain provisions were re-arranged and all three Ordinances were enacted to come into force together on 1st January, 1933.
6. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance (No. 1), based on a Home model, which with the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance (No. 6, paragraph 3 supra) incorporated the recommendations of a committee appointed to report on the measures required for the institution of Juvenile Courts in the Colony; the Employment of Young Persons at Sea Ordinance (No. 13), which applied to the Colony the convention adopted by the International Labour Convention of the League of Nations on 9th July, 1920 on this
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volume by the Government Printers. The forty-three Ordin- ances comprised two appropriation, one replacement, two incorporation, eleven consolidation, twenty one amendment, and six Ordinances which were new to the Colony.
2. The Appropriation Ordinance (No. 29) applied a suin not exceeding $27,585,142 to the public service for the year 1933, and Ordinance No. 25 appropriated a supplementary sum of $1,818,307.78 to defray the charges of the year 1931.
3. The replacement Ordinance was the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance (No. 6) which is closely modelled on the English law and the Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 47, with only such modification as were considered necessary Lo suit local conditions.
4. Ordinance No. 16 incorporated the directors for the time being of the Chinese Young Men's Christian Association of Hong Kong, and Ordinance No. 17 incorporated the members for the time being of the Council of St. Stephen's College, Hong Kong. These Ordinances followed the usual lines adopted in such cases.
5. The following Ordinances, viz. Estate Duty (No. 3), Opium (No. 7), Pensions (No. 21), Factories and Workshops (No. 27), Dangerous Drugs (No. 31), Police Force (No. 37), Prisons (No. 38), Companies (No. 39), Summary Offences (No. 40), Magistrates (No. 41), and Registration of United Kingdom Patents (No. 42) consolidated and in some cases amended the existing law on these subjects. Of these, the Pensions Ordinance (No. 21) is based on the recent pension enactments of similar Colonies, and replaces the former procedure under which
which pensions,
retired allowances and gratuities in respect of the public service were granted by order and in accordance with the directions of the Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Companies Ordinance (No. 39) enacts the provisions of the Companies Act, 1929, (19 & 20 Geo. V. c. 23) as far as they are applicable to local circumstances, and incorporates certain local provisions formerly in force. In the Police Force Ordinance (No. 37), the Summary Offences Ordinance (No. 41), and the Magistrates Ordinance (No. 40), certain provisions were re-arranged and all three Ordinances were enacted to come into force together on 1st January, 1933.
6. The Ordinances new to the Colony were the Juvenile Offenders Ordinance (No. 1), based on a Home model, which with the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance (No. 6, paragraph 3 supra.) incorporated the recommendations of ટો committee appointed to report on the measures required for the institution of Juvenile Courts in the Colony; the Employment of Young Persons at Sea Ordinance (No. 13), which applied to the Colony the convention adopted by the International Labour Convention of the League of Nations on 9th July, 1920 on this
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