CO129-530-10 Larceny Amendment Ordinance- 1931 2-4-1931 - 9-4-1931 — Page 5

Enclosure No.2.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong

2nd April,.

193 1.

8

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No

of 1931.

1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an

Ordinance to amend further the law relating to Larceny,

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is

not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

2.

Section 82(5) (a) (b) and (c) of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1891, Ordinance No.7 of 1891, create three offences, which were adopted from the Debtors Act, 1869, 32 and 33

Vict. c. 62, s.13. Though these provisions appear in

the Bankruptcy Ordinance, the offences, unlike many other

offences referred to in the Bankruptcy Ordinance, can be

committed by persons who have neither been adjudicated

bankrupt nor had a receiving order made against them.

A new Eankruptcy Ordinance, based on the English Bankruptcy Acts of 1914 and 1926, is in course of preparation, and

the offences referred to in that Crdinance will be confined

to persons against whom bankruptcy proceedings are taken.

It is therefore necessary to provide elsewhere for the

continuance of the general provisions of section 82 (5) (a) (b) and (c) of the present Bankruptcy Ordinance.