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11.
One class of persons is in this Ordinance omitted
from the list of persons entitled to registration in the
second part of the register, i.e., "salaried functionaries
of foreign Governments not carrying on busines8′′. It is
obrigas that such functionaries should be excluded from lia-
bility to jury service, but it is thought that they would not
desire to be included in the Sanitary Board electorate.
12.
Two new provisions are inserted in section 8 of
One, contained in sub-section (7),
the principal Ordinance.
makes personation at Sanitary Board elections as offence,
and it also makes it an offence for any person to procure his
registration on the second part of the register by means of
any false representation.
The penalty provided is a fine
not exceeding $500 or imprisonment for any term not exceeding
three months or both fine and imprisonment. The other new
provision, contained in sub-section (8), gives the Governor
in Council power to decide any question as to the validity of
any proceeding in any Sanitary Board election.
13.
The rules for Sanitary Board elections contained in
Schedule C to the principal Ordinance are being revised, and
a draft Order in Council was published with the draft of this
Ordinance.
14.
It
Section 3 of this Ordinance makes a few minor altera-
tons in paragraph (8) of section 6 of the principal Ordinance
which had been noted for the next convenient opportunity.
reclassifies the structures enumerated, it adds references to
pawnshops, stairs, columns, floors, piers, wharves, fences, canopies and kiosks, and it slightly alters the reference to
sunshades. It omits matsheds because the inclusion of this
term strictly speaking involves the submission of plans under
section 222 of the principal Ordinance.
enforced and it would be impracticable.
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