HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
OFFICIAL SIGNATURES FEES AMENDMENT
ORDINANCE, 1934.
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THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888". He said: The purpose of this amending Ordinance is shewn in the Objects and Reasons.
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 effect of the proposed amendment of the principal Ordinance is to add the Head of the Sanitary Department to the list of officials for whose signature a fee is charged.
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Its purpose is not so much to obtain extra revenue discourage the frequent applications which are made to the Head of the Sanitary Department on no very adequate grounds for, e.g., the change of the name of a holder of a market lease or licence.
MERCHANT SHIPPING AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1934.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Merchant Shipping". He said: The amendments to be effected by this Ordinance are necessitated by the intended extension to the Colony of the Merchant Shipping (Safety and Load Line Conventions) Act of 1932.
Part II of that Act which deals with Load Line and Loading will be proclaimed by Order in Council of His Majesty as applying to the Colony with necessary modifications when this Ordinance has been passed.
A further amending Ordinance will be submitted to this Council in due course and after that is passed it is expected that Part I of the Act which deals generally with Safety at Sea will also be extended to the Colony by Order in Council.
The details of the legislation concerned appear in the Objects and Reasons.
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:
1. By section 264 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, if the Legislature of a British possession, by any law, apply or adapt
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