CO129-540-5 Water supply- Shing Mun Valley Waterworks scheme 11-5-1932 - 7-12-1932 — Page 123

HỒNG KÔNG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

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HỌN. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-I will now, Sir, formally ask so that the Unofficial Members may have an opportunity of recording their vote--that this matter be put to the vote so that it may be seen they are all in favour of the motion which I have proposed. It is not, of course, for the Official Members to vote.

H.E. THE OFFICER ADMINISTERING THE GOVERNMENT.- There is very little for me to add to the remarks of the Colonial Secretary in replying to the Senior Unofficial Member's motion. The Government accepts the motion of the Senior Unofficial Member and honourable members may rest assured that the importance and urgency of proceeding with the second section of the Shing-Mun scheme are fully appreciated by the Government, and I shall not fail to convey the views of the Unofficial Members of this Council to the Secretary of State.

HON. SIR HENRY POLLOCK.-By telegram, Sir?

His Excellency.—Yes.

On the vote being taken, the following members voted in favour of the motion.-Sir Henry Pollock, Mr. Shenton, Mr. Kotewall, Mr. Braga, Mr. Ts'o, Mr. Paterson, Mr. Chau, Mr. Bell. The official members did not vote.

VACCINATION

AMENDMENT ORDINANCE.

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923 ” He said. This Bill effects the necessary amendments in the principal Ordinance, consequential on the transfer of the Births and Deaths Registry from the Sanitary to the Medical Department.

THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded, and the Bill was read a first time.

Objects and

Reasons.

The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:-

The Head of the Sanitary Department ceased to be Registrar of Births and Deaths under section 3 (2) of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance (No. 7 of 1896) when the Ordinance was amended by Ordinance No. 26 of 1931. This Ordinance makes consequential amendments in the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923.

EMPLOYERS AND SERVANTS

ORDINANCE, 1932.

AMENDMENT

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled “An Ordinance to amend the Employers and Servants Ordinance, 1902." He said. This Bill repeals the penal sections in the principal Ordinance leaving the relations between employers and their servants subject to the ordinary law of contract.

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