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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS

Hongkong,....

11th November

Report on Ordinance No. 28 of 1909

1909

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to amend the Malicious Damage Ordinance, 1865,

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

the Governor's Instructons

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Part I provides penalties in respect of malicious damage to

Railways" and Tramways.

The Principal Ordinance was based on the Imperial Act, 24 and 26

Vict., cap. 97; (the Malicious Injuries to Property Act, 1861) but

omitted these two sections, persumably because there were no railways

in Hongkong in' 1865.

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Part II The Trees Preservation Ordinance 1888 makes provision

for the levy of a special rate assessed upon villages by whose

inhabitants there is sufficient reason to believe that trees have

been destroyed. It has however proved unsatisfactory in practice for.