CO129-548-7 Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance 1934 17-7-1934 - 17-7-1934 — Page 4

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong, 14th July,.....1934.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No......17..........of 193 4

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I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an

Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences Ordinances, 1932,

and am of opinion that it is one which is not contrary to

the Governor's instructions.

2. Section 24(1) of the old Regulation of Chinese Or-

dinance, No.3 of 1888, prohibited (except under permit)

the erection of inflammable structures in the City of

Victoria and in villages, but by sub-section (2) excepted

funeral scaffolds from this prohibition.

The exception appears to have been forgotten when

this and other provisions of the said Ordinance were re-

pealed by the Law Revision Ordinance, 1930, with the result

that all such structures then came within the provisions of

section 9 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, as amended

by the Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1924, which

forbade their construction and maintenance except under

licence or permit. Section 9 of the new Summary Offences

Ordinance, 1932, re-enacted this prohibition.

3. The object of the amendment effected by the present

Ordinance is to restore to Chinese funeral scaffolds the

immunity in respect of licensing which they enjoyed prior