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Enclosure 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,
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40249 REC: 463
REGE 10 DEC 00
November JE 1900.
Report on Ordinance 30 of 19oo.
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present in force in the New Territories to certain portion of such New Territories
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
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Governor's Instructions.
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That portion of the New Territories, between Laichikok and Junk Bay which for the most part drains in a southerly direction from the Kowloon Mountain Range, is so closely connected with what used to be known as British Kowloon, that it is desirable that the laws in force in the latter should apply equally to the former district.
It may, at first sight, appear that it will be difficult to enforce compliance at once with all the requirements of some of the Ordinances which were declared by Ordinance No. 10 of 1899 not to apply to the New Territories. All that is really required, however, is consideration and tact in the administration of such laws; and the alternative would appear to be either to leave the district la question with no Sanitary, Building, or Liceusing laws or else to pass new Ordinances applying only to that district. The latter course would be to make one set of laws applicable to the Colony generally, a second set to part of the New Territories, and a third set applicable to the rest of such New Territories.
It is difficult to see why laws applicable to the southern half of a village like Sam Shui Po, for instance, should not be equally capable of application to its northern half.
Section 4 is intended to meet casos, such as sections 13, 54, 55, and 57 of Ordinance No. 24 of 1887, where such expressions as "the villagos and rural districts of Hong- kong and Kowloon" are used, and section 5 deals with evidence.
With Gordon
Attorney General.
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