CO129-429 - Public Offices & Others - 1915 — Page 556

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disenation, it

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is desirable that the governor should enjoy the same former in the

the present amending falling within

ordrinance.

I as

proposed.

28.

R.W. H. W. 4.

1915

To the lay mind the 1R. Umarks are

inelevant. There is "complate remcision

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816

S.

1915

[The above number and letter should be quoted in any reply nddressed to

The Secretary,

Inland Revenue,

with the word

Somerset House,

London, W.C., Stamps

the left-hand corner of the

blope]

sir,

INLAND REVENUE,

За

554

SOMERSET HOUSE, LONDON, W.C.

24th April, 1915.

1:072

REG:26 APR 15

for the For

can

anthonge the Collector

to stamp after execution without

penalty

" Sanction

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for

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thi

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I have laid before the Board of Inland Revenue

Kr Dead's letter of the 10th instant, No. 13480/1915,

enclosing a copy of Ordinance No. 1 of 1915 of the

Legislature of Hong Kong, entitled "All Orainarc] to aziend

"the Stamp Ordinance, 1901.

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In reply 1 am to acquaint you for the information

of the Secretary of State that the Board have no obser-

vations to offer on the principle of the Ordinance, which

they note is considered necessary by the Attorney General

for Hong Kong for the reasons he rives.

Passing to detail it occurs to the Board to

remark that the power conferred upon the Governor by the

new ordinance does not give the same measure of discretion

as that conferred upon the Collector by the Cidinance of

1901. In cases in which the Collector has pover under

Section 8 of the Principal Ordinance he may, under the

proviso, "remit the whole or any portion of the penal ty

"prescribed by this subsection if he is satisfied that the

The Under Secretary of State,

Colonial office.

"omission