CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 445

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Enclosure 2.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong....DA...............191 1922.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No............................................................of 191 1922.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an 11-

Kindred cffences,

-nce to consolidate, simplify, and amend the law relating to forgery and/

and I

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of opinion that the Ordinance is

one

which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

The object of this Ordinance is to introduce the provisions or

glish Forgery Act, 1913, 3 and 4.Gec. 5, c.27. ence clerely follows that Act, and as the Torgery

Ordinance,

As the Ordi-

1860 wae best

n the English. Forgery Act, 1666, 24 and 25 Vict. c.98, it has not been thought necessary to prepare a tale of correspondence between the sec- The prepa- tions of the Ordinance and those of the former Ordinance. Petion of such a table in the present case would have been a matter of

cwing to ...e difficulty, and the table would not have been of great use, the considerable rearrangements of provisions which have been made.

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