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Enclosure 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.

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JECO

Hongkong, 25th March. 1981.

Report on Ordinance No. 7 of 1901

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance, entitled

An Ordinance to introduce into the Criminal Law Ordinances

of 1865 certain provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Acts of the United Kingdom of 1861, and for other purposes

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

the Governor's Instractions.

A new Edition of the Laws of the Colony is being pre- -pared and this Ordinance was drafted by the Chief Justice for

the reasons attached :-

"When the Criminal Law Amendment Ordinances were framed "in 1865 the English Consolidation Ordinances of 1861 "were copied almost verbatim. But in connection with "offences relating to Railways two sets of sections were "omitted, because there were no railways in the Colony.

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