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Report on an Ordinance intituled

An Ordinance to provide for the payment of fees in

respect of Private Bills.

The object of this ordinance, which was introduced with the approval of the Right Honourable the Secretary of State for the Colonies, conveyed in his despatch of the 9th September, 1914, is to impose a fee to be aid in respect of private bills.

It was considered to be not unreasonable that such a fee should

be payable especially as the obtaining of a private Ordinance

generally results in a saving of conveyancing and other expenses,

and it was also thought that the existence of such a fee might act

as an automatic check on frivolous applications.

Section 1 is formal,

Section 2 defines the term private bill, the definition being

a combination of terms used in Article 55 of the Standing Orders

of the Legislative Council and in Sir Courtenay Ilbert's Legislative: Methods and Forms (1901), page 189.

In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency

the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Majesty and

on His behalf.

Attorney General,

9. 3. 15.

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