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Enclcaure 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
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REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.......................................................of 191 9.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
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An Ordinance to amend the Rating (Special War Rate) Ordinance, 1917,
Adam
une of opinion that the Ordinance is
Governor's Instructions.
which is not contrary to the
2. The object of this Ordinance is to amend the provisions of
Ordinance No. 18 of 1917, which imposes a Special War Rate of 7
per cent. from the 1st July, 1917, until the end of the quarter
during which the present war shall have come to an end, so as to
make such Special War Rate payable only up to and including the Second quarter of 1919, because, although Peace has been signed,
no Proclamation has yet been issued by His Majesty in Council under the Termination of the Present War (Definition) Ordinance, 1919, fixing a date to be treated as the date of the termination of the
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