CO129-349 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1908 [10-12] — Page 527

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE,

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Hongkong,

15th December, 1908.

Report on Ordinance No. 20 of 190 8.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entilled

An Ordinance to amend The Interpretation Ordinance

1897 and to remove an ambiguity in the construction

of the same.

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to

the Governor's Instructions.

The reason for amending the Interpretation Ordinance is conse-

quent upon the defect which was discovered in Ordinance No. 3 of 1895 in a recent case which was before the Supreme Court in April last brought for "Criminal Conversation" and it was then discovered that by the effect of Ordinance No. 3 of 1695 the Action for criminal conversation had unintentionally been repealed and did not exist in this Colony. Further more the Ordinance No. 3 of 1895 enacted that, since Ordinance No. 5 of

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