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REGE 27 MAY 12,

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong.. 20th. April,

1912.

Report on Ordinance No../A. of 1912.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance entitled

"An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Dangerous

Goods."

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructions,

It has been considered desirable to authorise imprisonment

fer offences against section 10(5) of the Dangerous Goods Ordinance in

lieu of or in addition to a fine.

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The sub-section which is substituted for the repealed one,

limits the period of imprisonment to 6 months in lieu of or in addition

to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. It also preserves the daily

penalty of one hundred dollars imposed by the repealed sub-section en

illegal possession of dangerous goods. The dangerous goods and vessels

containing them are made "liable to forfeiture". It was considered that

the forfeiture should not be absolute as a bomb might be temporarily

kept in some valuable receptacle not for security but by chance and by

the action of some servant of the person convicted.

The Ordinance was introduced on the urgent representations