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Report

on an Ordinance intituled An Ordinance to amend the Revenue officere Power of

Arrest Ordinance, 1915,

The objects of this Ordinance are to bring the

schedule to the principal Ordinance up to date and to

give the Governor in Council power to amend the schedule

in order to avoid the necessity of passing amending or

dinances in the future.

The cocasion which led to the introduction of the

bill was the drafting of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916, in

the course of which the Revenue Officers Power of Arrest

Ordinace, 1913, was considered.

The amending of the schedule to the latter Ordinance

was thought desirable in spite of sections 14 and 18 of

the Interpretation Ordinance, 1911. The Military Stores

(Brohibition of Exportation) Ordinance, 1982, and the Post Office Ordinance, 1900, had been amended, and the

Pharmacy Ordinance, 1908, and the Opium Ordinance, 1909,

had been repealed, the provisions of the latter two ordi-

nances having been re-enacted with modifications by the

Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1918, and the Opium Ordi-

nance, 1914.

These modifications were very considerable

in the case of the Opium Ordinance. In addition to the

above, the Tobacco Ordinance was about to be placed on the

Statute book.

It was thought advisable to give the Governor in

: Council power to amend the schedule, in order to avoid

the necessity of similar amending Ordinances in the future.

The necessary amendments in the schedule could of course

be made by a provision in the Ordinance which was for

the time being effecting a change in a