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subject; the City Hall Resumption Ordinance (No. 22), the Minimum Wage Ordinance (No. 28), which provides for fixing minimum wages in occupations where the wages paid are unreasonably low, and so carries out the obligations arising from Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles in respect of the International Labour Convention; the Empire Preference Ordinance (No. 32), which supports as far as local circumstances permit the conclusions of the Ottawa Conference; and the Divorce Ordinance (No. 35), modelled on the Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 123, with variations, notably the definition of a Christian marriage or its equivalent, derived from Nachimson's case (1930 P. 217) Brinkley's case (15 P.D. 76) Hyde's case (1 P. & M. 130) and Bethell's case (38 Ch. D. 220), which was considered the appropriate basis of jurisdiction of this kind in a largely non-Christian Colony, and the inclusion of a provision enabling a wife to found her petition on adultery alone or on certain grave offences.
7. The twenty-one amending Ordinances covered a wide range of subjects such as Po Leung Kuk Incorporation (No. 4), Chinese Temples (No. 5), Medical Registration (No. 8), Vaccination (No. 9), Employers and Servants (No. 10), Military Stores (Exportation) (No. 11), Births and Deaths Registration (No. 12), Importation and Exportation (No. 14), United Kingdom Designs (Protection) (No. 15), Vagrancy (No. 19), Liquors (No. 20), Merchant Shipping (No. 23), Crown Solicitors (No. 24), Foreshore and Sea Bed (No. 26), Waterworks (No. 30), Supreme Court (Admiralty Procedure) (No. 33), Marriage (No. 34) and Protection of Women and Girls (No. 43).
8. In the case of Ordinances No. 1 (Juvenile Offenders), No. 6 (Industrial and Reformatory Schools), No. 27 (Factories and Workshops), No. 35 (Divorce), No. 31 (Dangerous Drugs) and No. 33 (Supreme Court Admiralty Procedure) the date of commencement will be determined by Proclamation after notice of non-disallowance has been received.
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9. Similarly, the subsidiary legislation covered a range of subjects, including Merchant Shipping, Tobacco, Liquors, Air Navigation, Importation and Exportation, Vehicles and Traffic, Gunpowder and Fireworks, Dogs, Crown Fees, Post Office, Vaccination, Licensing, Eating-houses, Markets, Cremation, Aerated-water Manufactories, Laundries, Bakehouses, Food-preserving Establishments, Dairies, Dangerous Drugs, Passports, Nurses Registration, Wireless Telegraphy, Emergency Regulations, Prisons, Advertisements, Prevention of Disease, Dangerous Goods, Public Places, Ferries, Places of Public Entertainment, New Territories, Waterworks and Merchandise Marks.
10. Legislative provision for compensation for accidents, sick pay and old age pensions such as obtains in the United Kingdom has not been adopted in the Colony where the labour
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subject; the City Hall Resumption Ordinance (No. 22), the Minimum Wage Ordinance (No. 28), which provides for fixing minimum wages in occupations where the wages
wages paid are unreasonably low, and so carries out the obligations arising from Article 421 of the Treaty of Versailles in respect of the International Labour Convention; the Empire Freference Ordinance (No. 32), which supports as far as local circumstances permit the conclusions of the Ottawa Conference; and the Divorce Ordinance (No. 35), modelled on the Straits Settlements Ordinance No. 123, with variations, notably the definition of a Christian marriage or its equivalent, derived from Nachimson's case (1930 P. 217) Brinkley's case (15 P.D. 76) Hyde's case (1 P. & M. 130) and Bethell's case (38 Ch. D. 220,, which was considered the appropriate basis of jurisdiction of this kind in a largely non-Christian Colony, and the inclusion of a provision enabling a wife to found her petition on adultery alone or on certain grave offences
7. The twenty-one amending Ordinances covered a wide range of subjects such as Po Leung Kuk Incorporation (No. 4), Chinese Temples (No. 5), Medical Registration (No. 8), Vaccination (No. 9), Employers and Servants (No. 10). Military Stores (Exportation) (No. 11), Births and Deaths Registration (No. 12), Importation and Exportation (No. 14), United Kingdom Designs (Protection) (No. 15), Vagrancy (No. 19), Liquers (No. 20), Merchant Shipping (No. 23), Crown Solicitors (No 24), Foreshore and Sea Bed (No. 26), Waterworks (No. 30), Supreme Court (Admiralty Procedure) (No. 33), Marriage (No. 34) and Frotection of Women and Girls (No. 43).
8. In the case of Ordinances No. 1 (Juvenile Offenders), No. 6 (Industrial and Reformatory Schools), No. 27 (Factories and Workshops), No. 35 (Divorce), No. 31 (Dangerous Drugs) and No. 33 (Supreme Court Admiralty Procedure) the date of commencement will be determined by Proclamation after notice of non-disallowance has been received.
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9. Similarly, the subsidiary legislation covered а range of subjects, including Merchant Shipping, Tobacco, Liquors, Air Navigation, Importation and Exportation, Vehicies and Traffic, Gunpowder and Fireworks, Dogs, Crown Fees, Post Ofüce, Vaccination, Licensing, Eating-houses, Markets, Crema- tion, Aerated-water Manufactories, Laundries, Bakehouses, Food-preserving Establishments, Dairies, Dangerous Drugs, Passports, Nurses Registration, Wireless Telegraphy, Emergency Regulations, Prisons, Advertisements, Prevention of Disease, Dangerous Goods, Public Places, Ferries, Places of Public Entertainment, New Territories, Waterworks and Merchandise Marks.
10. Legislative provision for compensation for accidents, sick pay and old age pensions such as obtains in the United Kingdom has not been adopted in the Colony where the labour
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