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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S

CHAMBERS,

Hongkong, 18th August, 1922.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 18

of 1922.

1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled An Ordinance to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acts and matters done during the war and to provide in certain cases remedies in substitution therefor, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's Instructione.

2.

This Ordinance is based on the Indemnity Act, 1920, 10

& 11 Geo. 5, chapter 48.

3. The definition of the term "war risk" in section 2 is

taken from clause 19 of Admiralty Charter Party T. 99, as being the risk assumed at the time of requisitioning when

certain ships were first placed under control in 1917 and

1918.

The other definitions in section 2 are taken from

the Act, the definition of the term "Blue Book Reports" being

expanded by a reference to His Majesty's proclamation of the

3rd August,

1914.

4.

Section 3 of the Ordinance is practically a copy of

section 1 of the Act, except (1) that worde have been inserted