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Enclosure No. 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong..24.th December, 1927.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.28........

...of 192 7.

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1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance ntituled an Ordinance

to amend the Railways Ordinance, 1909, and I am of opinion

that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Gover-

-nor's instructions.

2.

The drafting of certain new Railway rules revealed the

desirability of making certain alterations in the Railways

Ordinance, 1909, Ordinance No. 21 of 1909. This Ordinance

makes those alterations, and some others, but it is not a

general revision of the principal Ordinance.

3.

"Administration" is defined in the principal Ordinance

as" the manager or such other person as the Governor may ap-

-point to conduct the affairs of any railways". As this is

a person it is considered that the word "administrator" is

more suitable, especially as the word "administration" is also

used in the principal Ordinance as an abstract noun. This

amendment is made by paragraph (a) of section 2, and by sec-

-tich 3, of this Ordinance.