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L.S.

HONG KONG.

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No. 8 of 1928.

I assent.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Officer Administering the Government.

13th July, 1928.

An Ordinance to amend the Distress for Rent

Ordinance, 1883.

[13th July, 1928.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Distress for Short title. Rent Amendment Ordinance, 1928.

2. Section 15 of the Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, Amendment is amended by the insertion of the words "or firm " of Ordinance

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immediately after the word person in the fourth line No. 1 of

thereof.

1883, s. 15.

3. Paragraph (7) of section 16 of the Distress for Rent Amendment Ordinance, 1883, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor :-

(7) Goods delivered to a person or firm exercising a public trade, to be carried, wrought, worked up, or managed in the way of the trade or employ of such person or firm.

4. The Distress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, is amended by the insertion of the following section immediately after section 39 ;---

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1883, s. 16.

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 1 of 1883, insertion of new section

Application

40. The provisions of this Ordinance shall of Ordinance. extend to New Kowloon, notwithstanding any- 40. Ordinance thing to the contrary contained in the New

Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910.

No. 34 of 1910.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 12th day of July, 1928.

H. R. BUTTERS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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