CO129-476 - Acting Governor Claud Severn & Governor Sir Stubbs - 1922 [8-12] — Page 268

Enclosure 2.

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ATTORNEY

GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong, 30th September,

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. 21 of 1922.

1922.

1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

an Ordinance to consolidate and simplify the law relating to

perjury and kindred offences, and I am of opinion that the

Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Governor's In-

structions.

2. The Ordinance is founded on the Perjury Act, 1911, 1 and

2 Geo.5, c.6.

3. Section 2 is practically a copy of section 31 of the

Interpretation Ordinance, 1911, as it will read when it has

been amended by the Evidence Ordinance, 1922.

It is re-

peated here because the use in certain sections of this ordi-

nance of the term "affirmation" might be used to found an argu-

ment that an intention contrary to the general intention of

The English the Interpretation Ordinance should be assumed. Perjury Act contains a similar interpretation clause although the English Interpretation Act contains a provision similar to section 31 of the Hongkong Interpretation Ordinance.

4.

Apart from obvious adaptations, such as the substitution of "Hongkong" for "England", and the substitution of dollars

for pounds, the principal variations between the Act and the

Ordinance are as follows.